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Another. — Take of table beer, a little warmed, 



1 1-2 pints (English;) common piepper or powdered 

 ginger, 1 tea-spoonful; gin, whiskey, or rum, from 



2 to 4 ounces, or from 1 to 2 glasses full; these 

 mixed together for one dose. 



Another. — Oil of turpentine I ounce, and water- 

 gruel 1 1-2 pints (English) mixed, for a dose. 



These and the like preparations may be given 

 either out of a bottle, or drench-horn, one or two 

 persons raising and keeping properly up the horse's 

 head, while another who administers the medicine, 

 pulls out, and a little aside, the tongue, with his 

 left hand, and with the other pours in the draught. 



Further treatment. 



Cordial drenches of the kinds recommended, 

 with the clyster, will have effect in ordinary cases 

 to relieve the disorder. But should this not be 

 the case, after waiting an hour or two, (longer or 

 shorter according to the severity of the ailment, 

 or the period since its commencement,) then the 

 medicine should be repeated, but in a less dose 

 than at first — perhaps one-half or two-thirds of 

 the former quantity. The horse should be occa- 

 sionally walked out, properly covered with clothes, 

 lest the chill air bring on shivering, and give rise 

 to fcverishness; and his belly should be now and 

 then rubbed a considerable time at once, five or 

 ten minutes, but with intervals of rest, so that it 

 may have time to stale or dung. If the disorder 

 does not yield to these remedies, then others must 

 be employed of a more active nature. Some per- 

 sons recommend caster oil in the proportion of half 

 a pint to a pint (English,) with an ounce or two of 

 laudanum, or tincture of opium, mixed with water 



