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dency to produce cold or inflammation. During the 

 months that are very cold, if you purpose riding at 

 daybreak, and your horse is used to a comfortable 

 stall, always keep as much clothing over the saddle 

 as he had on at night, until brought out, and then, 

 when you mount, give a trot for the first quarter of 

 a mile. This may appear over particular ; but, 011 

 getting out of bed in January, at daybreak, walk out 

 yourself without dressing. 



Symptoms. The same as in the human being. 



Treatment. Decrease, and boil the grain, and mix 

 one map of hot bran mash with it, or more, if he is 

 fond of bran ; decrease the grass also, giving lucern 

 or green grass instead ; take the chill off the water by 

 boiling a handful of linseed, and a lump of ghoor in 

 three quarts of water, then adding to it two gallons 

 of cold : clothe him a little warmer than usual if it is 

 cold, but let the stall be open, well open, and cool, 

 not damp. If he coughs, put a drachm of antimonial 

 powder, and three drachms of nitre in two wine-glass- 

 es of hot water, and then mix with three ounces of the 

 simple oxymel, and give it twice a-day, before his 

 morning's and evening's mash, which must now have 

 less boiled grain in them ; and do not exercise him 

 beyond a walk. If the cold is very bad, he must not 

 be moved from his loose stall, but clysters of warm 

 soap and water used every other day. In some of 

 these severe colds, when the pulse is much quick- 

 ened, the glands below the ears perhaps swollen, 

 the .skin dry, and the running from the nostrils thick 

 and plentiful, taking two or three quarts of blood is 

 necessary, giving six ounces of Epsom salts in a pint 

 of thin warm congee, every morning and evening, 



