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-diuretics, I have seen upwards of fifty cases where 

 that kind of treatment has been adopted, and 

 proved so succefsful, as to exceed my most, san- 

 guine expectations ; but previous to giving the 

 medicine, the patient should lose from three to 

 four quarts of blood, which may be repeated occa- 

 sionally. This method of practice cannot be too 

 much recommended, as it is a well-known fact, 

 that inflammation of the lungs destroys annually 

 more young horses, than all the other diseases to 

 which the Horse is incident. 



When mercurials are given, it will be necefsary 

 to keep the Horse from being exposed to cold as 

 much as pofsible ; as mercurial medicines, by their 

 tendency to pafs off by the surface, make the body 

 more irritable and susceptible of injury from sud- 

 pen changes of temperature. 



In speaking of diuretics, it will be found that I 

 have rejected the fixed alkalis, which only have a 

 tendency to injure the stomach and intestines, and 

 have confined myself entirely to the use of turpen- 

 tines: On them we can always depend. The 

 form, as it now stands, is simple, though not lefs 

 efficacious : for by only increasing or diminishing 

 the quantity, we can produce, to a certainty, a 

 greater or lefser action of the kidneys. 



