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straw, and every method taken to comfort her, and 

 to encourage the secretion of milk. To promote this 

 end, as much warm mild ale should be allowed, as 

 she will drink ; or if she refuse it, she may be drench- 

 ed with a couple of quarts, to be repeated as may ap- 

 pear necessary ; her food being the finest and most 

 fragrant hay, sweet grains, with mashes of corn and 

 pollard. In cases of chill and great weakness, the 

 old well known article, cordial ball, may be given in 

 warm ale. Should, however, the case be inflamma- 

 tory, from previous high condition and fullness of 

 blood, cordial ball and all stimulants should be strictlv 

 avoided, and the regimen confined to warm water and 

 gruel in as copious quantities as can be administered. 

 Should further measures of similar tendency be in- 

 dicated, a mild solution of Glauber's or Epsom Salts, 

 (10 or 12 oz. in a pail of warm water,) may be given, 

 which she may be induced to drink by being kept 

 short of water. A moderate quantity of blood may 

 be drawn, should the symptoms plainly demand it, 

 not otherwise. Daily walking exercise abroad, the 

 mare being clothed if necessary, should succeed, until 

 she be sufficiently recovered to be returned to her 

 pasture. During the inability of the mare to give 

 suck, the foal must be sustained on cow's milk. This 

 alien milk will generally disorder and gripe the foal, 

 for which, the best remedy is two or three tea spoon- 

 fuls of rhubarb in powder, with an equal quantity of 

 magnesia, in warm gruel. This medicine should be 

 given to the foals of labouring mares, which are often 

 griped by sucking pent milk. The disorder arising 

 from wet and cold, a table spoonful each, of- the best 



