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If the feet they are hot, instead of cold ; the 

 muzzle often resting on them when lying down, and 

 the great disinclination to stand. 



The note at the bottom of the page, however, ought 

 to serve as a guide and warning, to convince yourself 

 that inflammation really does exist in some part be- 

 fore you commence to cure."" 



CLASS VII. 



RED URINE, 



in India, must be considered as arising more from some 

 little derangement in the digestive functions, than as 



O O ' 



a primary disease of the kidneys ; and what would 

 alarm in England, is here allowed to pass almost un- 

 noticed. The native remedy is ghoor and ginger, six 

 drachms of each, mixed, and given daily, for three 



* A horse that had been for some months having only very gentle sxercise, 

 was taken out and galloped after a hog. On return to his stall, he immedi- 

 ately lay down. The alarmed master, without feeling the pulse or asking any 

 body's opinion, took five quarts of blood. The pooor animal not being much 

 refreshed by this, a friend recommended he should be clystered and physick- 

 ed. The horse, after this, getting more ' ' gureeb" still, they both allowed that 

 it was a most extraordinary case, but that, as he appeared so near dead, bleed- 

 ing again could not do harm, if it did not do good. At this stage, as I lived close 

 by, my advice was solicited. I had seen the horse on his first return : his case 

 was plain enough a little overgalloped when not in wind, and brought home 

 hot Out of pity for the poor brute, I undertook to do all I could, saying, I 

 had a bottle of Elixir lately sent me from London, just adapted for these ob- 

 scure cases. I then mixed some sawdust, red-ink, and blue-paint, in a quart 

 of sour claret for the master to smell at, and putting the sufferer, half-dead 

 from treatment, into a loose open stall, with a large soft bed, washed his mouth 

 out with the Elixir of warm water, and left him with a little green grass till 

 the following morning. The horse survived ; and the owner gave me a gold 

 mohurfora pint of the mixture; and his hunter, from henceforth, went by the 

 name of, Impostor. 



