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consist of green food, carrots, or mashes, in spare 

 quantities; and the following ball may be adminis- 

 tered daily, for three or four days. 



RECIPE (No. 5). 



Tonic Ball after Indigestion. 



Take — Powdered nux vomica, half a drachm; 

 Sulphate of zinc, one drachm ; 

 Extract of gentian, two drachms ; 

 Powdered ginger, one drachm : 

 Beat them together, and make them into a ball. 



CHAPTER V. 



RABIES, OR HYDROPHOBIA (MADNESS). 



There is a disease, and one of the nervous system, 

 which may be occasionally confounded with phrenitis, 

 and which may now be conveniently considered, viz., 

 Rabies. 



If a horse has been bitten by a mad dog, or his 

 muzzle (the corners of the mouth having been galled 

 by the bit) has been licked by one of those dogs 

 which are within the stable, and which has become 

 mad, the horse will most probably, in his turn, also 

 become rabid. The disease will suddenly appear, 

 and at the commencement, bear considerable resem- 

 blance to phrenitis. The animal will stop, look about 

 him, stagger, and fall. He will immediately get up 

 again, and proceed on his journey, but presently he 

 will begin to stagger once more ; and the sooner he 

 is got home the better. The difference between rabies 

 and phrenitis, in this stage of the disease, is that the 



