CHAPTEE XLIV. 



GIVING MEDICINE. 



Best in balls — Dimon's Spavin Cure — Dimon's Colic Remedy — Dimon's 

 Black Oil Liniments — Dimon's Liniments — Condition powder — Leg 

 wash — Symptoms of disease — The pulse — The ears — Membrane of 

 nose — Eyes — Mouth — Breathing — Skin — Flanks — Drooping of 

 the head — Lying down — Pointing with the nose — Pointing with the 

 foot. 



IN administering medicines to horses I much prefer to mix it 

 with meal or rye bran and make it into balls and place 

 those as far back in the mouth as possible, rather than to give 

 it in a liquid form from a ~ bottle or horn ; and there is more 

 safety and less waste in the ball management. In drenching 

 — as it is called when giving liquid medicine — the horse's head 

 is raised and held up, a bottle is introduced into the mouth, and 

 the liquid poured down. In his struggles there is always dan- 

 ger of some of the medicine being drawn into the windpipe 

 and lungs, and inflammation and fatal results sometimes fol- 

 low. 



In my many years' practice in treating diseases of horses I 

 have found the same remedy to act equally alike on all cases of 

 the same nature, of whatever name the disease may go by ; as, 

 for instance, medicine good to heal a sore on any part of the 

 horse, or by whatever name it may be called, is just as effec- 

 tive on one part as another. So it is in bone diseases and many 

 of the internal diseases, however classed and named. I don't 

 wish to be misunderstood in this matter, however; I don't 

 mean the one medicine for sores, bones, and internal diseases. 



Consequently, in describing treatment, I have, instead of 

 giving in each similar malady a full and many times different 

 remedy, mentioned a certain liniment, oil, salve, drench, or ball, 

 etc., first being quite sure to have my remedies understood. 



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