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the animal should not be worked hard, though 

 moderate exercise is desirable, and so is 



Change of physic, as in all cases that require 

 alteratives. When the coat is staring, the follow- 

 ing balls should take place of the preceding, 



Alterative Balls. 



Emetic tartar, 3 drachms, 



Aloes, 9 drachms, 



Hard soap, 1 ounce, 



Ginger one scruple. 

 Mix, and divide into three balls ; one to be given 

 on successive nights, unless two have operated. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 



This being one of those diseases which bears 

 resemblance to another, and as the mistaking and 

 treating the one for the other generally proves fatal, 

 reference should be had to what is said under the 

 head " inflammation of the neck of the bladder." 

 Such a mistake of the disorder in the present in- 

 stance is very likely to be made by the common 

 observer, inasmuch as the kidneys, as soon as they 

 become inflamed, secrete much more urine than in a 

 state of health, and any one noticing this, and sub- 

 sequently its defalcation, as the disease goes on, 

 may easily imagine the bladder itself is affected, 

 or its neck. It is worthy of remark, that mares are 

 more subject to affections of the kidneys than horses, 

 particularly brood mares ; while, on the contrary, 



