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and eats liis bed, and then it should never be omit- 

 ted until his stomach regains its natural tone. When 

 they are finished, put a drachm of black salt, finely 

 pounded, in his gram at each feed, and in a few days 

 double it, and then treble it ; nothing being more 

 palatable, or better suited to recall the appetite of a 

 horse recovering from sickness than this. Green 

 grass, or lucern, but never with the dew on it, (it 

 should be dried twenty minutes in the sun after cut- 

 ting,) should also be given in moderate quantities, if 

 procurable ; if not, sliced carrots ; and he should be 

 walked, or ridden at a walk, morning and evening, 

 according to his strength. It is want of care during 

 the first month with these thin horses ; giving them 

 eight seers of hard grain when they cannot digest 

 half; putting them into a canter when they are 

 scarce fitted to be mounted for a walk ; omitting 

 physic, or giving it too strong ; and allowing them to 

 continue gorging on all day and night at dry grass, 

 that disarranges their inside, and renders it so diffi- 

 cult to bring them round again into anything like 

 order. If you have attended to the foregoing, and 

 evident improvement has not taken place in a month, 

 but he still looks dull, and feeds badly, and you can 

 discover no rheumatism, no fever, no worms, (ex- 

 amine well the pulse, mouth, teeth, &c.) persist strict- 

 ly in the above way of feeding, and give every morn- 

 ing at daybreak, for a fortnight, some of the beer- 

 tonic, p. 109."" Let him, also, always now drink some 

 warm gram gruel, sweetened with a lump of ghoor, 

 when he comes in from his walk in the morning, and 



* This is an excellent tonic, and although I would never give a drench when 

 a ball can be given, yet I would not hesitate to give this, when such kind of 

 tonics are required. ED. 



