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mixed with mucus. The unfavorable arc, sudcjon 

 cessation of pain; urine dribbling away in small 

 quantities, of a black and fetid colour and smell, 

 the disorder is caused by violent blows across the 

 loins, small stones or irravel beiuij bKlixed wit bin 

 the kidnies; violent motion or hard driving in hot 

 and sultry weatber. i 



Let the animal be bled freely and take a pint of 

 caster oil. If the dung is at all hard, or deficient 

 in quantity, let clysters or warm water, with a lit- 

 tle sweet oil, be employed. Th^iniment or em- 

 brocation, directed for inflammation of the lungs, 

 [see page 91, J should be rubbed on the loins; after 

 which, let them be well clothed, or covered with a 

 fresh sheep or lamb's skin. 



When the pain and dithculty, or rather the almost 

 constant straining to stale continues, after the caster 

 oil has operated, and the bowels have been suffi- 

 ciently opened, an anodyne clyster may be admin- 

 istered, consisting of about one ounce and an half 

 of tincture of opium, in one quart of gruel; or, from 

 one drachm to two of crude opium, dissolved in 

 warm water, and mixed with gruel. 



If the animal is very thirsty, he should be re- 

 strained from drinking; and what bo takes should 

 be impregnated with some mucilaginous substance; 

 an infusion of linseed, or decoction of marsh mal- 

 lows is very proper. 



Inflammation nfthe brain. 



This disease is a kind of madness, attended with 

 ravings and constant watchings; slow respiration: 

 a strong pulsation in the temporal arteries, and 

 sometime irregular; running at the nose; the ani- 

 mal appears in a very fierce state, as if seized witij 



