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occur it is very dangerous and you must in these 

 cases give large doses of aloes and glyster free- 

 ly, repeating until you get it to operate. If 

 you fail to get an operation you will loose your 

 horse. Preparation for glystering: Take warm 

 water and make a suds with soap^ add thereto 

 ep^om salts, and in some cases you may add J 

 oz. aloes. Fish oil is a very good article of it- 

 self; from a pint to a quart for one injection. 

 I have known 1 pint of fish oil to he given as a 

 drencli in colic, and has relieved where all other 

 remedies have failed. 



I will here state that there are more horses 

 killed by medicine improperly .^^n than ever 

 was cured. For this reason, the^|7eat majority 

 of owners of horses and in fact a great many 

 farriers who pretend to know, do not know 

 what the disease is, and next is a dose of medi- 

 cine and perhaps in less than half an hour the 

 horse drops down dead, and why, because in 

 many cases the medicine giv^en for the disease, 

 is the dose that poisons or killsjiim, from the 

 fact that he was mistaken in the disease, or 

 given medicine for one disease when it was 

 another. Therefore, I here again assert that 

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