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experience and judgment of the attendant. I say to him, 

 however, give the medicine time, — let him learn to wait for 

 its effects. 



VI. — Medicine in Cskonic Disease — In all cases of 

 a chronic nature, administer the remedies to the patients 

 after they have fasted for some time ; then let them remain 

 without food for a short time. 



Medicine and its Administeation. — The medicines used 

 in veterinary practice are numerous, and they are administered 

 to the horse in different ways, but principally in the liquid state ; 

 sometimes, however, in the form either of a ball, or a powder. 



The liquid medicines prescribed for the cure of the various 

 diseases treated upon in the following pages, consist for the 

 most part, of different tinctures. G-reat care is necessary in 

 purchasing drugs ; otherwise, in cases where benefit would be 

 readily effected by their agency, no result will follow their 

 administration, simply because of the adulteration which is so 

 common in articles of this description. 



Administeation of Liquid Medicines. — The best de- 

 scription of instrument for administering liquid medicine is a 

 horn. The horns in general use are too big. One holding two 

 ounces of water will be sufficiently large for any ordinary 

 purpose. Numbers of horses will not allow a horn to be 

 placed within their mouths unless compelled. The best way of 

 dealing with such animals is to fix a twitch upon their nose ; 

 this generally will cause the most violent to remain quiet. 

 Some horses resist medicine being administered to them, 

 because they are brutally pulled and knocked about. 



The proper way to administer liquid medicine, when the 

 quantity is not excessively large, is to proceed as follows : — 



