TREATMENT AFTER HUNTING. 20o 



in the morning than they do at present ; and re- 

 turned to them often five hours later. We allude 

 to past days, in which there were few artificially 

 made covers, and when foxes were found by the 

 " drag," through long chains of woods, and cer- 

 tainly were run over much more ground than mo- 

 dern foxes are, which, being generally bred near 

 game preserves, run shorter, and are not so stout 

 as formerly. 



After Hunting. — The treatment of a horse now 

 will depend on what he has been doing. If not a 

 severe day, no further notice of him is requisite, 

 than to ascertain whether he feeds as usual ; and 

 if not, an alterative ball,* with a liberal allowance 

 of tepid water, will soon restore his appetite, by 

 allaying the over-excitement that has checked it. 

 It is after a severe day's work that danger to a 

 hunter is to be apprehended, the consequence of 

 over-excitement of the vascular system, and he 

 should be in this case narrowly watched. If merely 

 fatigued, such are the restorative powers of the ani- 

 mal, that rest, in a large loose box, with an hour's 

 exercise daily, in the open air, will soon bring him 

 about ; but we should be on the alert against fever. 

 Here, however, we generally have notice — some 

 directing symptoms which cannot be mistaken, such 



* The following alterative and sedative medicines are found effica- 

 cious at this time : — Cinnabar of antimony, 3 oz. ; balsam of sulphur, 

 2 oz. ; camphor, 1 oz. ; nitre, 4 oz. To be made into ten balls ; one 

 ball a dose. These are known among grooms by the term " red 

 balls." 



