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pint every four hours until the disease is checked. If 

 the discharges are fetid, add to each dose half a 

 table-spoonful of finely-pulverized charcoal ; and if the 

 foal be weak and in poor condition, allow it hay tea, 

 thickened with oatmeal. 



As regards costiveness, green food and scalded 

 shorts are the antidotes, and the mother will partake of 

 either with relish. Some of the former, if the season 

 permits, should be cut and placed before her soon after 

 labor. If the articles fail to have the desired effect, a 

 dose of aperient medicine — caster oil, or salts — should 

 be given. 



DIARRHCEA. 



This is quite a common disease among horses. 

 There is a kind, however, among grass eaters, that is 

 beneficial rather than otherwise, if it does not continue 

 foTv any length of time. Diarrhoea is the effect of an 

 irritable or congested state of the muscous membrane 

 of the intestines ; often produced by improper articles, 

 or over-doses of physic, by over-exertion and perspi- 

 ration suddenly checked by exposure to cold winds, &c. 



