70 PHYSICKING. 



If the dose you have given was not a mild one, 

 which it ought to have been if you were not aware of 

 your horse's constitution, and he should purge more 

 than ten times, give immediately a quart of luke- 

 warm finest bajree, or wheat-flour gruel, with two 

 drachms of gum arabic dissolved and put into it, and 

 repeat this every two hours till the purging stops, or 

 he has once dunged a little thicker. He is not to 

 eat or drink a particle of anything else till this takes 

 place, but remain quiet in a loose stall with a muzzle 

 on, and allowed to lie down on his bed. If he will 

 drink the gruel, let him take a couple of quarts each 

 time ; if not, drench him with one. A horse should 

 not have a dozen watery evacuations, when the in- 

 tention is merely to promote condition or prevent 

 illness, or, the object for which the physic is 

 given will be defeated. This fine bajree, or wheat- 

 flour gruel, and gum, will soothe the bowels, and in 

 the course of six or eight hours generally stop the 

 purging. Should it not be found sufficient, and he 

 should still purge on to the number of twenty times 

 and more, it will be time for you to look to OVER- 

 PURGING, in a subsequent page of this volume. 



When the physic has done working, whether it has 

 been a ball or a drench, two days more are still re- 

 quired before he can resume his former grain, and be 

 put to work ; for the too rapidly filling of the stomach 

 and bowels immediately after physic, often proves as 

 dangerous as giving the physic without preparation. 

 Two maps of bran mash, and one^pf ground grain, 

 can be given at each feed, and one pooly of grass af- 

 ter it, and at night he may eat away at grass till the 

 muzzle is put on at nine o'clock : the water must have 

 the chill off, as before. The next day the grain may 



