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or of purging, the quantity of liquid should 

 not be less than a gallon, or six quarts ; but 

 when it is used as an anodyne or astringent, 

 from a quart to three pints of liquid will be 

 sufficient. 



S. False. 



In the management of sick horses great ad- 

 vantage may be derived from attending to the 

 state of the pulse, as we are thereby enabled to 

 judge of the degree of violence of the disease, 

 and the probability there may be of recovery ; 

 we are in some measure assisted also bv it, in 

 ascertaining the nature of the complaint, and 

 the application of remedies. 



In a healthy horse the pulsations are about 

 36 or 40 in a minute, and may be felt very 

 distinctly either on the left side, or in an artery 

 which passes over the lower jaw bone ; in short, 

 pulsation may be felt in evcr^^ superficial ar- 

 tery. When the brain is oppressed, t]ie pulse 

 <j^eneraliv becomes unnsuallv slow. In a case of 

 water in the brain, which occurred latelv, the 

 pulse fell to 23 in a minute; in the progress of 

 the disease, however, it became unusually 

 quick. 



