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}y effect a cure. When yon have used this 

 ^vater, stop it up close, and shake it together — 

 dress it twice a day. 



For a horse orravelled. 



Search and find the gravel, then stop the place 

 with hog's grease i^id turpentine, mixed togeth- 

 er ; pour it in scalding hot ; stop it up with 

 hurds ; then tack on the shoe, keep his feet from 

 wet, and he soon will be well. 



To aire a horse of the Flux or Scowers. 



Take the entrails ofayounghen, or a great chick- 

 en, exceptingthe gizzard; mix one ounce of spike- 

 nard with them, and make him swallow it ; this 

 will infallibly stay his scouring ; yea, if it be a 

 bloody fiux, this is very good. 



Treatment of Horses, §^c. 



Pulse of a Horse, — In the manegement of 

 sick horses great advantage may be <ierived from 

 attending to the state of the pulse, as w^e are 

 thereby enabled to judge of the degree or vio- 

 lence of the disease, and the probability there 

 may be of recovery. We are in some measure 

 also assisted by it in ascertaining the nature of the 

 complaint, and the application of remedies. 



In a healthy horse the pulsations are about 36 

 or 40 in a minute, and may ibe felt very distinct- 

 ly tidier on Ihe left :side, or in an artery which 



