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old ; but the following is rather preferable : take 3 eggs, 

 1 teacupful of wheat-flour, 2 oz. coffee (boiled strong in 

 1 qt. of water) ; add all together, and give ^ a pint each 

 morning until a cure is effected. 



WINDY COLIC. 

 Symptoms. — The horse is very restless, lying down 

 and starting up again. When the pain is violent, he has 

 convulsive twitches ; his eyes are turned up, and his 

 limbs stretched out, as if dying; and his ears and feet 

 alternately cold : he falls into profuse sweats, and then 

 into cold damps. 



Causes. — This disease often proceeds from catching 

 cold by drinking cold water when hot, and the perspira- 

 ble matter is by that means thrown upon the bowels, 

 which causes them to distend violently, and sometimes 

 brings on an inflammation in the small intestines, when 

 the body begins to swell, and the cure is despaired of. 



Remedy. — Empty the straight gut with a small hand 

 dipped in oil ; this gives room for the wind to discharge 

 itself, the suppression of urine is removed, upon which 

 the horse immediately stales, and becomes much easier. 

 If the horse be young and full of blood, take a quantity 

 from the neck. When these purgative operations have 

 been performed, the following may be given, as it seldom 

 fails to give relief: 4 oz. tincture of senna, 6 drams tinc- 

 ture of opium, 1 dram oil of juniper, 8 oz. of juniper ber- 

 ries, bruised ; put 1 qt. of boiling water on the juniper 

 berries, let them stand a few minutes, strain it off, put 

 all together, and give them to the horse. 

 THE DRY GRIPES. 

 Symptoms. — This disorder mostly proceeds from cos- 

 tiveness, and is discovered by the horse's frequent and 

 fruitless attempts to dung, the blackness and hardness 

 of the dung, the frequent motion of his tail, the high 

 color of his urine, and his great uneasiness. 



Remedy. — Take 4 oz. castor-oil, 4 oz. tincture of sen- 

 na, -^ oz. oil of juniper ; give them all together, and then 

 the following clyster : boil a handful of marshmallows 

 and camomile flowers in a quart of water, then strain it 

 off, and add two ounces of linseed-oil. If the horse do 



