WAXEE. — BAELET WATEE. Ill 



the list, are so well known, and their effects so well understood, 

 that any further reference beyond naming them, is unnecessary. 

 Avoid the giving of huge scalding hot mashes, made of bran, 

 oats, or linseed, — a mess fitter for an hippopotamus than a 

 horse having a languid stomach, and a frame weakened by acute 

 disease. 



"Watee. — Of the various articles of a flaid kind named 

 in the above list, water must be regarded as the basis. Cold 

 water will on many occasions prove not only grateful, but 

 salutary in the highest degree to a sick horse. "Warm water 

 is insipid; while gruel, and in short, fluid mixtures of any 

 kind, if constantly placed before the animal, speedily produce 

 nausea and disgust. In such cases, cold water will be taken 

 with avidity, and relished to an extreme. The quantity to 

 allow at one time, wiU depend upon circumstanoes : two or 

 three quarts wiU not be productive of injury, unless repeated 

 too frequently. 



Pure soft water, as stated at page 43, is alone proper for 

 horses. Sain water is relished by numbers, when they are 

 accustomed to it; but if caught in large towns, or where 

 manufacturing is carried on extensively, it is neither good, nor 

 palatable as an article of diet. 



Baeibt "Watee. — Barley water is a very palatable drink, 

 if prepared with care. It is serviceable in the generality of 

 diseases which are of a low depressive character, such as 

 typhoid pneumonia, idiopathic and sympathetic fever, and 

 other states of a similar kind. It is also what may be con- 

 sidered an excellent diuretic; that is to say, if the fluid be 

 drank copiously, a free secretion of urine will be the consequence. 

 It should be made from what is called "pearl barley;" or if 

 made from the common article, the grain should first be 

 crushed, and after being boiled, the liquor should be strained 



