CHAP. I.] AND RESTORATIVES. 195 



A Diuretic Ball. 

 Turpentine and soap, of each 4 drachms, with 

 mucilage and meal to form the ball. 



A good restorative for lowness, occasioned by 

 the moulting-fever of autumn, is recommended by 

 James Clark of Edinburgh : he says, " the end of 

 autumn proves very severe to those horses whose 

 flesh and strength are exhausted by hard labour. 

 In this low and spiritless state the moulting season 

 comes on, and carries off numbers that good nurs- 

 ing and feeding, with rich boiled food, at this sea- 

 son, might have preserved. Carrots and potatoes 

 recover some horses surprisingly ; it renews their 

 flesh and the fluids generally, and promotes the 

 secretions: it operates upon them nearly in the 

 same manner as spring grass, and its effects are 

 presently visible on their coats." Many stable men 

 give oatmeal mixed into bergue, or crowdie, for 

 horses that evince signs of languor and lowness of 

 spirits, after fatiguing work in winter : if made into 

 gruel, the restorative effect is found still greater, 

 and a smaller quantity of corn then sufficeth. A 

 gradual return to hard food does all for the horse's 

 working condition which can be desired. 



Fever is brought on, in some degree, whenever 

 it comes to pass that either of the vital organs may 

 be deranged in its functions. Not unfrequently it 

 happens that a diuretic is all the patient requires, 

 which may be judged of by the state of his pulse 

 after the medicine has operated. When this is the 

 case the feverish symptoms owe their origin to sup- 



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