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Though they do not destroy a horse, they 

 often weaken him so much, that it requires 

 sometimes several weeks to restore the 

 strength; but several cases have occurred 

 where the bowels had been rendered so irritable 

 from the violent effect of physic, that they 

 became subject to troublesome and even dan- 

 gerous diseases. A case of this kind has 

 been alreadj- mentioned. (See page 270, note.) 

 Sometimes obstinate costiveness is occasioned 

 by it ; at others a constant tendency to diarrhoea 

 and colic. When a horse, whose bowels have 

 been thus injured, is attacked with colic or 

 gripes, the strong remedies commonly employ- 

 ed, such as gin, pepper, &c., often prove fatal by 

 exciting inflammation. The following draught 

 will be found most useful, giving frequently small 

 quantities of gruel, linseed tea, or any other 

 mucilaginous fluid, and injecting a clvster of 

 the same kind. The only method of curing 

 the ii'ritability or tenderness, of the bowels 



the auixnal ; he soorv after died from inflammation of the bowels. 

 The Cape aloes are certainly)' the weakest kind. I have jeen se- 

 veral horses destroyed by larger doses tlian this, such as ten, 

 ^'slye or iouiteen drams; and as often, and perhaps more, from . 

 ^iecctrine ti\"vu Barhadces aloes. (See note to page 22^,) 



