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rheans an inflammation will be prevented ; and if you hiave 

 reason to think that the inflammation is already begun, from 

 e creature's being feverish, and staling with great diffi- 

 culty, the opeyation should be repeated ; for unless the in- 

 flammation be Prevented, or immediately removed, the con- 

 sequence will be fatal. But. although bleeding is the prin- 

 cipal, it is not the only remedy, for rowelling is of great 

 service. Put a rowel on each side of his belly, and give the 

 following balls twice a day. in a pint of the decoction of 

 marshmallows, having an ounce of gum arabic, and an ounce 

 of honey dissolved in it : 



1 ounce of S.ilts of Prunella. 

 6 drams of .Spf-macoti. 



2 ounces of Castile Soap. 



Add as much honey as will make a ball ; and if the urine 

 be bloody, an ounce of Japan earth must be added. If the 

 fever continue, you must repeat the bleeding, and give 

 emollient clysters, and the cooling, opening drink, before 

 recommended for Fevers, till it abate. These methods will 

 often prove successful, but sometimes the disease is too ob- 

 stinate to be overcome by them, and the urine still passes 

 with pain and difficulty. Eecourse must then be had to the 

 following balls, and they must be repeated twice a day till 

 the horse stales without pain, and his urine becomes clear. 

 and without any purulent settlement : 



1 ounce of Venice Turpentine. 



1 ounce of Castile Soap. 

 6 drams of Nitic. 



2 diams of Myrrh, in po%vder. 



Make the whole into a ball with honey, and wash it down 

 with a strong decoction of marshmallows. 



These are the best methods of treatment in this disorder, 

 and will in general prove successful. Sometimes indeed 

 this malady is too strong for the power of medicine, and 

 then the urine continues turbid, and daily becomes of a 

 deeper color, with a foetid smell, a sure sign that the kidneys 

 are ulcerated ; which generally terminates in a consumption, 

 and the creature becomes absolutely incurable. 



In treating of the Colic I have recommended a method for 

 removing the Stranguary, when it proceeds from wind, or 

 from dung pressing upon the neck of the bladder ; birt 

 sometimes it proceeds from an inflammation, and a retention 

 of urine. 



Symptoms of an Inflammation op the Neck of tite 

 Bladder. — When a horse is seized with a Stranguary from 

 the above cause, he will make frequent motions to stale, 



