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When any foetor is detected, the chloride of zinc, in 

 scruple doses, dissolved in a pint of water, should be 

 given both by the mouth and thrown up the rectum. 



If the purging should abate, the medicine should 

 be discontinued ; or, if the horse appears to be nar- 

 cotized, no more should be given than is necessary to 

 keep up this effect. It will be a good symptom if 

 the injections are retained ; and, that they may be 

 retained, they ought never to exceed in quantity a 

 quart at a time. 



After the purgation ceases, supposing the animal 

 to survive, obstinate constipation generally follows. 

 This will sometimes continue for a week. Let not 

 the proprietor be alarmed or seek to remove it. After 

 some time has elapsed nature will resume her functions ; 

 and in the interspace gruel or green meat should con- 

 stitute the food ; but no mashes of bran ought on any 

 account to be given, as these irritate the bowels. 



This is the disease which the groom designates 

 " molten grease" It must not be confounded with a 

 little spontaneous purging or simple diarrhcea ; which 

 is often an effort of nature to cast off something that 

 is injurious to the system; and therefore is best re- 

 lieved by an oily laxative, which in dysentery would 

 aggravate the disease. 



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This is a very frequent disease. If it is timely 

 attended to, little danger appears to accompany it. 

 However, almost every groom has a supposed specific 

 for it, and one that is often successful, but one which 

 in severe cases frequently wastes valuable time. The 

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