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Treatment. During the first cold fit, (not when 

 the warm one has commenced,) if a quart of warm 

 beer, with three drachms of ginger, or a pint of port, 

 and a pint of hot water, with a little spice were given, 

 a jhool put on, and the horse gently trotted in hand 

 for a quarter of an hour, (or let the trotting go on 

 while the wine or beer is preparing, only be quick 

 about warming it,) the fever might be nipped in the 

 bud, and no more seen of it. Three horses I have 

 cured in this way ; feeding on bran mashes and green 

 food the following two days. If unfortunately not 

 observed at the onset, (which it rarely is, except by 

 a man who lives half the day in his stables,) bleed" 5 " 

 five or six quarts if the horse is fat and the pulse 

 much quickened ; but if the pulse is not much quick- 

 ened, or not above fifty-five, never bleed, for the 

 horse will frequently sink 'under it. Always back- 

 rake, then clyster. Give half a drachm of calomel, 

 one drachm of emetic tartar, and one drachm and a 

 half of aloes, made into a ball, and ten hours after, 

 another ball of the same.t After ten hours more, 

 give half a pint of linseed-oil, or six ounces of Epsom 

 salts in thin congee ; and if the dung is not softened, 

 repeat it after another ten hours : nothing more, how- 

 ever, than three or four extra evacuations are allowa- 

 ble ; purging is strictly prohibited. If the pulse was 

 high and bleeding has been resorted to, half a drachm 

 of digitalis, one drachm of emetic tartar, and three 

 drachms of nitre, are now to be given, morning, noon, 

 and evening, in about three ounces of warm waterj 



* See "BLEEDING," p. 62. 



t Instead of giving linseed-oil or Epsom salts, I would continue the ball 

 until the faces become softened. ED. 



J This ought to be given in a ball, and the digitalis continued until the 

 pulse becomes intermittent, ED. 



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