GIVING BALLS. 621 



tines or abdominal organs, which calls immediately for sedatives. 

 Take, for example, general colic treatment. Usual colic dose : — 



i Laudanum , , , 1 to 2 02. 



Sweet spirits of niter . . 1 to 2 oz. 



Tincture belladonna .'. . . .1 to 2 dr. 



Linseed-oil .......... i. .. . | to 1 pt. 



If tympanites (flatulent colic), would add to the above one half 

 to one ounce tincture Jamaica ginger, and one half to one ounce 

 aromatic spirits of ammonia, with a few drops tincture nux vomica, 

 every half hour, until relieved. 



Quick and feeble pulse indicates the lungs being involved. 

 Moderately rapid, and throb- 

 bing or bounding pulse would 

 indicate inflammation of the 

 extremities, such as laminitis, 



and is to be treated as such. «■ ■» 

 While an irregular pulse-beat, jSJmJll hBI( ! 

 whether fast or slow, would 

 indicate the heart itself being 

 involved, which is to be „.„__ „_, „. __.. 



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treated by giving medicines JKa^S^Xz^'^ '^'i^mt^W 1 '^ 



that- act upon the heart, such 

 as alcoholic stimulants, bel- ,_,„ 

 ladonna, and digitalis. The 

 first two stimulate the heart, 

 the last is a heart sedative. 

 Of alcohol, brandy, etc., give p ia 932. -Feeling the Pulse. 



2 to 4r ounces, with same 



quantity of water 1 fpr a dose ; tincture of belladonna, JO to 12 drops, 

 which may -be given in small doses every hour for an unlimited 

 time, pr in 1 to 2 drachm doses twice a day, not to be Ipnger than a 

 few days. Digitalis, being a heart sedative, must be used with 

 greater caution ; from 15 to 60 drops of the tincture may be given 

 twice a day for two to four days, of until thfe heart's action be- 

 comes slower. This drug has accumulative properties — that is, it 

 may not seem to act for some time ; and then act with such great 

 force as to be idXiX.—Hamill. 



Giving Balls. 



Medicine is most commonly given to horses in the form of a 

 ball or bolas, the size [of which should not exceed that of a hen's 

 egg. , Though named a ball, it is generally rolled up in a cylindrical 

 form, about one inch in diameter, and two and a half in length. In 



