39G OPIATE — REGIMEN. [BOOK II. 



amount in the end. Be careful to buy it genuine ; 

 and if the horse be taken care of while in his 

 sweats, it will mainly contribute to his getting well. 

 The patient is not to have this sweating ball whilst 

 he has other physic in him ; but it may be given 

 alternately with the foregoing powder of nitre and 

 resin; and is better administered thus, when it 

 happens that the individual requires to be set a 

 staling, and we think best to sweat him at the same 

 time. If the medicine make his large gut to grum- 

 ble, as sometimes happens, add to the ball 



Opium, \ a drachm, 



which some do put into the prescription, whether 

 or no. But then the opium having a tendency to 

 bind the body, why, it counteracts our labour in 

 this respect, and is not desirable in case the animal 

 requires opening physic, rather than this which 

 stills the bowels. Administer the Sedative Clyster 

 at page 371. 



Regimen. — A good generous feeding should be 

 allowed, with a few beans for the elder patients 

 only ; and in all cases where the disorder has lasted 

 a long while and the cure is effected with difficulty, 

 a run at grass is greatly conducive to complete re- 

 covery ; especially if the convalescent can be allowed 

 the option of a linhay, or covered shed, lying high 

 and dry, or the advantages of the homestead, with 

 an allowance of corn and hay. This change of 

 regimen is greatly assistant of absorption when the 

 physicking has ceased, especially where the disorder 



