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demanded. The horse should be bled. A purgative 

 combined with an antispasmodic should then be admi- 

 nistered, and the following will answer the purpose : — 



RECIPE (No. 40). 

 Drink for Enteritis. 

 Take — Solution of aloes, four ounces ; 

 Extract of gentian, four ounces ; 

 Laudanum, two ounces ; 

 Sulphuric ether, two ounces : 

 Add a pint of cold water and give. 



A drachm of opium, combined with half a drachm 

 of calomel, may afterwards be administered every 

 hour ; and, if the pain has not abated, the sulphuric 

 ether may be repeated at the same time as the mer- 

 cury. The other measures are the same as re- 

 commended in peritonitis ; namely, back-raking, clys- 

 ters, counter-irritants to the belly, &c. ; but, after 

 enteritis, the food should be given sparingly ; and 

 nothing which is of a hard or dry nature placed before 

 the horse for some time. 



DYSENTERY ACUTE DIARRHCEA, OR VIOLENT IN- 

 FLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE 

 BOWELS. 



This is too frequently the consequence of physic ; 

 either of bad quality, or given in an over-dose ; or 

 administered under circumstances which should have 

 warned the practitioner of the consequent danger of 

 purgation. If physic has not been given, yet the 

 horse may have been ridden or driven far and fast, 

 with nothing but green meat in his belly ; or inflam- 

 mation of the lungs may have quitted its primary 



