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reckless and mad. The cause is too great a determina- 

 tion or rush of biood to the head, thus affecting the 

 brain, and causing the above named fits. 



Cure. — Immediately on seeing that he has a fit of this 

 kind, take a gallon of blood from the neck vein; also 

 split the skin of the forehead two or three inches in 

 length up and down; peel the skin back a little, and fill 

 the wound with fine salt and pepper; then close the 

 wound, and keep it so by means of two or three stitches. 

 Moderate exercise in the open air will not hurt him, if 

 the weather should be favorable. After about ten hours, 

 give nearly a pint of linseed oil, adding half an ounce 

 of sassafras oil. Should he become costive after the 

 operation of the above, give small doses of sulphur for a 

 few days, and let his food be simple and digestible. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



The philosopher Dan says, if a man is poor, all he has to do 

 to become rich, is to reverse the action by increasing his income, 

 and diminishing his outlays. This applies, with the same force, 

 to diseases. Reverse the action by removing the cause, and 

 nature will do her work again; and health is restored. 



HORSE DISTEMPER, 



This is a disease that all colts are liable to, and it is 

 also very contagious; but if attended to in time, it can 

 be cured without much trouble, or any bad effects arising 

 from it, and even without their swelling and breaking 



