138 SURFEIT. 



Horses are sometimes hide bound in consequence of 

 feeling the effects of some violent disease, and it is 

 often a bad symptom ; but generally, this tightness of 

 the skin proceeds from poverty, cruel usage, and 

 sometimes from worms. 



The first thing necessary for performing a cure is, 

 to offer better treatment to the animal, giving him 

 plenty of light food, such as bran, oats, &c. and a clean 

 stable with fresh litter. Then take from the neck 

 vein half a gallon of blood; at night give a mash com- 

 posed of one gallon of bran, scalded with sassafras tea; 

 one table spoonful flour of sulphur or powdered brim- 

 stone, and one tea spoonful of saltpetre ; not permitting 

 him to drink for six hours afterwards. 



On the second day, at twelve o'clock, take of cop- 

 peras, two table spoonfuls ; of warm sassafras tea, one 

 quart ; saltpetre, one tea spoonful ; mix and give them 

 as a drench. Have the horse well rubbed, and in a 

 few days he will be entirely relieved. 



SURFEIT. 



THE surfeit is a common disease among horses that, 

 have been cruelly or injudiciously treated. Sudden 

 changes from heat to cold, plunging deep into cold 

 water and drinking plentifully after being excessively 

 hard rode, unsound food, being turned from a warm 

 and comfortable stable out into the cold air, night 

 dews, &c. &c. often produce surfeit. 



