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symptoms. The common remedies on this 

 occasion are bleeding, or strong purgatives, 

 which are sure to increase the debility; nor 

 are antimonials, or medicines that act upon 

 the skin, proper to be given. The most 

 effectual medicines are those of the io?iic\und, 

 with moderate stimulants (See White's 

 Veterinary Materia Medico) ; and when the 

 bowels are loose, a small proportion of opium. 

 These, however, will avail little, unless 

 assisted by due attention to grooming. Though 

 we have so strongly reconnnended ventilation 

 in stables, it must not be inferred that a cold 

 stable is desirable : horses seem to thrive 

 most in one that is moderately warm. I 

 have known old hoi^ses, that could not be 

 kept in condition in a cold stable, even upon 

 the highest feed, do well when removed to 

 a warmer one : this, however, is the effect of 

 liabit; and it is probable, that if a horse were 

 accustomed, from the time he is first taken up, 

 to a cold stable, he would never require any 

 other : but when from his youth he has been 

 kept in hot stables, his body constantly 

 clothed, and his stomach frequently stimulated 

 by cordials, it cannot be supposed that he ii^ 

 able to endure cold. It is necessarv therefore. 



