THE HORSE. 21 



transiilon from heat to cold, or being coiifinecl in damp, 

 cold stables, after severe working. When a horse is 

 troubled with an obstinate dry cough, it will greatly re- 

 lieve him to bleed him moderately ; after which give him 

 two or three doses of physic. Prepare the following : 

 4 oz. gum ammoniac, 4 oz. asafcetida, 4 oz. squills, -i oz. 

 saffron, 6 drams of cinnabar of antimony; make the 

 whole up into balls about the size of a large walnut, 

 adding a little honey and liquorice, and give oTie every 

 other morning. Another: take 1 oz. ginger, 2 table- 

 spoonfuls of tar, and the yolk of an egg, and give every 

 morning — letting the animal drink weak lime-water three 

 times a day. The diet should also be carefully at- 

 tended to. It will greatly relieve a horse, troubled with 

 this complaint, to feed him with roots, and wet the hay 

 as well as the grain on which he is fed. He should have 

 moderate exercise, but none that is violent ; and v/ith 

 dry and clean stables he will last for years. 



THE STAGGERS. 



This is a dano^erous disease, and should receive atten- 

 tion at once. It is caused by the liver making blood so 

 fast that the cavity of the heart is overloaded, and the 

 blood flies ujd the neck vein till the head is likewise over- 

 loaded ; and unless relief be obtained the horse soon dies. 



Symptoms. — The most common are drowsiness, in- 

 flamed eyes, a disposition to reel, feebleness, loss of 

 appetite, and the head hanging down or resting on the 

 manger. The horse soon reels, and falls down, and 

 sometimes bites everything that comes in his way. 



Cure. — In the first place bleed him, by striking the 

 vein in several places at once, and taking away four or 

 five quarts of blood, according to the size of the animal. 

 Let his head and shouldersf be raised by putting a quan- 

 tity of straw under them. If he survive the first fit, cut 

 several rowels, and give him clysters twice a day, made 

 of barley-water, adding a little sweet-oil and salt ; and 

 blow up his nostrils a small quantity of cayenne pepper 

 or white hellebore ; also give him, in one quart of warm 

 water, \ oz. camphor, 16 grains turbith mineral or -J an 

 oz, ginger, 4 grs. Peruvian bark. If he appears to be 

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