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may have proceeded. The remedy for chollc, 

 arising from repletion and distention of the ab- 

 domen and bowels, is simple, and generally both 

 efficacious and certain. But if inflammation has 

 taken place, what might be a very proper step to 

 ease both in ordinary cases might not only be 

 highly injudicious, but dangerous, to resort to in 

 another stage of the disorder ; for instance, where 

 inflammation of the bowels had taken place, a dose 

 of aloes would probably be death, and this in all 

 probability a common farrier would administer, 

 as they generally do, in very strong doses. A 

 horse, therefore, thus attacked, and thus attended, 

 would have but little chance of his life ; and as 

 we might be in situations where good professional 

 advice could not be got, it is always a source of 

 anxiety to have an animal subject to so jDrecarious 

 a complaint. The safe way is to reject him. 



MEGRIM AND STAGGERS. 



It is not my province or intention here to 

 state the causes of complaints, but merely their 

 effects, and consequently how far they are ob- 

 jectionable. 



Neither megrim nor staggers are often fatal 

 attacks, though very troublesome and sometimes 

 dangerous ones to any one using a horse subject 

 to them. But when staggers arise from a dis- 



