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at one dose. Give a dose of this kind three times 

 a day. Clean out the bowels with warm water 

 injections, then inject the following three times a 

 day: Acetate of lead two drams, carbolic acid half 

 a dram, tincture of opium one ounce; mix this in a 

 pint of thin starch gruel. If this treatment does 

 not relieve the animal in two or three days, give 

 the following three times a day: Tincture of gen- 

 tian one ounce, tincture of ginger one ounce, tinc- 

 ture of chloride of iron one ounce; mixed in a quart 

 of starch gruel. Ounce doses of bismuth nitrate in 

 a quart of starch gruel have been given with good 

 results two or three times daily. A teacupful 

 of flaxseed boiled into a pulp and mixed with a lit- 

 tle ground oats is good; also plenty of pure water. 

 If the animal is chilly clothe the body and hand- 

 rub the legs and put on bandages. The treatment 

 could be greatly assisted by good nursing and plac- 

 ing the animal in a good, comfortable stable and 

 feeding it on good oats and hay. 



Superpurgation is caused by an overdose 

 of physic, or a dose of physic given when 

 an animal is in a weakened condition, 

 either from disease or from exhaustion. Although 

 a horse may purge severely, as long as it eats 

 well and the pulse keeps near the natural point 

 treatment is unnecessary, but if it stops eating and 

 the pulse becomes rapid and weak, the breathing 

 fast with colicky pains, and cold legs there is great 

 danger of the animal dying from inflammation or 

 collapse. Give from one to two drams of powdered 

 opium every two hours, and if the legs and ears are 



