166 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



mash, at each feed ; the water with the chill off, and 

 very little grass. 



Gripes in India are very common, and the cordial 

 quart of Hodgson, with three drachms of finely-grated 

 ginger, six drachms of anise-seed, and three ounces 

 of ghoor, is, after all, the most grateful cure : and one 

 that is generally at hand. In giving it, you may 

 omit the little point of mistaken politeness, you so 

 generously offer to your friend at dinner, begging 

 him " not to wait," but to swallow it down, fixed 

 air and all, the instant it is poured out. You are 

 now only treating the inside of a horse, and that un- 

 der disease, which, having too much wind already 

 there, will not be cured by another quart being thrust 

 do\N n his gullet. Pour the beer into a clean cooking- 

 pot ; then put in the ginger, anise-seed, and ghoor, 

 and stir it round whilst on the fire warming : in this 

 way the stimulants become properly incorporated 

 with the beer. 



CLASS III. 



COLD. 



A thorough draught, or letting a horse stand still 

 when heated by exercise, are almost as frequent caus- 

 es of cold in this country as in England. Stripping 

 off the jhool in the cold weather, and then taking 

 him out of the warm stall to be led for his morning's 

 walk, or, at the gora- walla's option, to stand still, 

 common sense must tell you will chill ; and suddenly 

 bringing a horse from the open mydan, in cold wea- 

 ther, into a close Bombay stable, has an equal ten- 



