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hours, still continue unabated, the distress appear 

 great, and the legs and ears cold, he will be in much 

 danger : blister the belly, take away three quarts of 

 blood, and give the medicine, both by mouth and 

 clyster, every three hours. 



Blister for the belly. Half a pound of flour of mus- 

 tard, one ounce of spirits of turpentine, two drachms 

 of finely-powdered Spanish flies, and half a pint of 

 linseed-oil ; to be made into a paste, and spread on 

 dungaree a foot square, with a jhool underneath it ; 

 or else spread on the inside of a sheepskin, and kept 

 close to the belly for two or three hours, by bandages 

 tied over the back.* 



On recovering from violent over-purging, a seer of 

 well-boiled ground grain, (gradually increasing to 

 two,) one map of bran mash, and three drachms of 

 gum-arabic, should be given at each feed for a week ; 

 wheat, or bajree flour gruel, sweetened, always at the 

 first watering time in the morning ; only two gallons 

 of water at each drink, and that with the chill off ; 

 very little grass after each feed ; a little dried lucern, 

 of the previous day's cutting, is best ; and for the 

 first three days, not moved from his loose stall. 



But inflammation may also come on from the bad- 

 ness of the aloes, (if the stuff sometimes procured 

 from the bazaar can come under that name,) or from 

 improper ingredients being mixed up, or from the 

 physic being given when the bowels were overloaded ; 

 as well as being caused by "over-purging, and the then 

 deadly sudden stopping of the purging with strong 

 astringents. The symptoms are the same. A quick 

 small pulse, from fifty to eighty, and scarcely to be 



* It ought, however, first to be well rubbed in for twenty minutes. ED. 



