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dung and spasms of the intestines. If you are 

 not sure whether botts are the cause, take this 

 method first, which will often destroy them : 



Give the horse three gills of gin, with as much 

 sweet oil ; if he is costive, give him an ounce of 

 aloes, made into balls with castile soap and honey. 

 If this does not work, give him a glister made 

 of tobacco leaves steeped in old urine, and sweet- 

 ened with molasses ; these remedies are adapted 

 as near as possible, to suit both disorders. 



SCOURING. 



This is brought on by drinking too much 

 cold water, or by eating sour hay, &c. 



Cure. — Give your horse two quarts of the 

 .liquor, wherein garden rhubarb, flax seed and 

 mallows, have been boiled ; or boil white oak 

 bark, and white pine together ; give him one 

 quart of this morning and evening till well. 



SORE BACK. 



If the skin is wore off a horse's back, and the 

 sides of the sore are swelled, bathe it with hot 

 urine, or with salt and water ; this will disperse 

 the swelling. If you wish to dry up the sore, 

 powder chalk, or old shoes burnt, and cover the 

 sore with it. If his back is full of hard lumps, 

 or what is commonly called saddle boils, bleed 

 him freely in the mouth, which will serve as a ' 

 dose of physic ; then wash his back often with 

 hot rum and vinegar. 



' BLEEDING. 

 This is a resource, which unskilful men fly to 

 on every failure of their horse, without consider, 

 ing the nature of the disease, or state of the 

 horse's body. 



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