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by the following prescriptions : — Take of aloes three 

 drachms, asafoetida two drachms, rubbed down in 

 warm water. When cold add one ounce of turpentine and 

 ether. It is best given to the animal fasting, say three 

 times a week. It is advisable also to change the feed to 

 boiled barley, mashes, carrots, and green food, if they are in 

 season. Another valuable remedy is the following : — Take 

 of asafoetida two drachms, calomel and savin a drachm 

 and a half each, with thirty drops of oil of male-fern. Let 

 these ingredients be mixed with treacle and linseed for a 

 dose at night. The next morning give a purge. In ad- 

 dition to these medicines let the animal have plenty of salt 

 in his feed. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER, HEPATITIS. 



Cause. — This complaint in its chronic form is not fre- 

 quently seen in horses, acute hepatitis is one of the rarest 

 of diseases in our practice. The chronic form arises from 

 high feeding and idleness. I scarcely know whether over- 

 work or no work, without exercise, does most mischief to 

 an animal. Brewers horses fed upon the refuse of the 

 malt-house may look in fine condition for some time, and 

 yet their liver be in such a diseased state as to produce in- 

 flammation of this gland. The unnatural stimulation re- 

 sulting from that kind of food is certain (if persevered in 

 for any length of time) to end in chronic hepatitis. Horses 

 kept for show and not for work are generally highly fed and 

 well stalled ; the nourishing food without exercise makes 

 great demands on the liver for the secretion of bile, and 

 this organ continually overworked becomes congested. 

 This engorgement of blood produces the inflammation which 

 we call hepatitis. Horses in the Southern States, and in 

 all tropical climates are more liable to this disease than 

 those of northern latitudes. 



Symptoms. — The indications of this disease are not 

 generally observed until permanent damage is done. The 



