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or resting it on the manger, rearing, falling, and lying 

 in a state of insensibility, walking a small circle for a 

 considerable length of time, the ears hot, with a burn- 

 ing fever, &c. &c. &c. 



Remedy. — Take from the neck vein half a gallon 

 of blood, three times in a week ; take of sassafras tea, 

 three half pints ; plantain juice, half a pint ; asafoeti- 

 da, half an ounce ; saltpetre, one tea spoonful ; mix 

 and give them as a drench three mornings in a week ; 

 give an injection composed of one pint of meal, two 

 quarts of water, one quart of molasses and one spoon- 

 ful of hog's lard ; let the horse be moderately exer- 

 cised, and whenever he is standing should be well 

 rubbed ; give a mash twice a week, composed of one 

 gallon of bran, one table spoonful of sulphur, one tea 

 spoonful of saltpetre, one quart of boiling sassafras 

 tea, and a eighth of an ounce of asafcetida, not per- 

 miting the horse to drink cold water for six hours 

 afterwards. Should he be much mended by this treat- 

 ment, nothing more will be necessary, except feeding 

 him on bran, or light food of any kind ; but should he 

 appear to receive no benefit from these attentions, in 

 four or five days, take of calomel, twenty-five grains ; 

 of opium, two drachms; camphor, two drachms; 

 powdered fennel-seed, one drachm ; of syrup, of any 

 kind, a sufficient quantity to make the ingredients into 

 a ball, which may be given every morning for four or 

 five days, by which time the horse will get well if 

 his disease will admit of a cure. 



Horses that are confined in a stable never have the 

 staggers ; consequently it would be advisable for 

 every person, whose situation will admit of it, to con- 

 fine their horses, particularly at night, during the 

 spring and fall months. 



