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they are extreniely cotivcnient, and gene- 

 rally beneficial. In obstinate cares of grease^ 

 and in chronic inflammation of tlie eyes, 

 they often do good ; they are generally 

 serviceable also in conghs of long standing , 

 or even when they are recent, if not caused 

 by strangles, in which disease the throat is 

 often so much inflamed, and so very sore, 

 as to randt^r tha exhibition of medicine by 

 the mouth impropef. Clysters however are 

 often beneficial in those cases. In short, 

 iliere is no medicine of more general utility 

 in the diseases of horses, than the laxative 

 alteratives, the most effectual of which is 

 uloes^ in the dose of one or two drams, with 

 an equal quantity, or rather more, of castile 

 soap. 



When it is employed to destroy worms, 

 from ten to twenty grains of caiomd may be 

 added. Common salt, in the dose of three 

 or four ounces, is bometimes employed a«i 

 an alterative, and generaby opens thu bowels 

 in three or fou ■ da vs. 



Diuretic Alieiiatives are composed 

 of 7iitre, resin, soap, and turpentine; I have 

 observed that corrosive sublimate acts gene- 

 rally as ^ diuretic m the horse, when given 



