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ARTICLES OF DIET. 



manifested on that account. Loss of appetite is but an effect 

 of the disease ; and if the disease can be subdued, the desire 

 for food will gradually return. When it does return, encourage 

 it by the allowance of small quantities of food at a time ; and 

 let it be of a nature which is at once nutritious, and easy of 

 digestion. In a general way, cooked food should be resorted 

 to. It should be cooked with the greatest care, and given at a 

 temperature agreeable to the animal. 



Avoid the giving of huge scalding hot mashes, made of bran, 

 oats, or linseed, — a mess fitter for an hippopotamus than a horse 

 having a languid stomach, and a frame weakened by acute 

 disease. 



The common articles which I prescribe for sick patients, 

 and which I shall enumurate, and afterwards to some extent 

 consider, are the following : — 



ELTJIDS. 



Linseed Grruel. 



"Water. 

 Barley Water. 

 Eice Water. 

 Oatmeal Grruel. 



Bran. 



Hay. 



Bice. 



Malt. 



Oats Boiled. 



Barley Boiled. 



Wheat Boiled. 



SOLIDS. 



Sago Gruel. 



Hay Tea. 



Milk. Milk and Water. 



Speared Corn. 



Oatmeal. 



Carrots. 



Turnips, Eaw and Boiled. 



Mangold Wurzel. 



Green Clover. 



Grass. 



The following articles I have already treated upon at pages 

 35 and 37, and 43, viz. : — Water, hay, and oats ; while others in 



