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to give advice. Some may recommend the horse to have gin 

 given to him ; others gin and pepper ; others a mixture of gin, 

 pepper, onions, and hot ale ; others old urine ; and very likely 

 all of them to bleed the animal from the veins of the neck, or 

 the roof of the mouth. 



I was called to a patient some time ago, affected iu the 

 manner described ; and when I arrived, I found two individuals 

 engaged in abstracting blood from the animal ; two others in 

 giving a drench of hot ale and pepper ; a fifth, in giving an 

 injection of soap and water ; and several in rubbing the body 

 and limbs of the patient with wisps of straw ; while a number 

 of others were engaged in laughing, shouting, making sport, 

 and occasionally in issuing fresh instructions of that nature 

 which the wisdom of the multitude deemed necessary. 



What the attendant should do in the first instance is, if 

 practicable, to remove the patient at once into a roomy place, 

 well provided with clean straw ; when, if proper remedies for the 

 disease are not at hand, or cannot readily be obtained, he can 

 easily procure a clean porter bottle, which he may fill with hot 

 water and administer to the horse forthwith, using the water 

 as hot as it can well be borne without fear of scalding the 

 mouth. By this simple practice the disease may in all proba- 

 bility be checked, and the patient none the worse in the end. 



Every driver of a team, before starting a long journey, 

 should have a small box fitted to the waggon, which box should 

 contain the following articles, viz. : — 

 Small Drench Horn. 

 Tincture of Aconite, 1 ... 2 ounces.* 

 Tincture Nux Vomica, 1 ... 2 ounces. 

 Por a knowledge of the value of these medicines, and the 



* The Aconite for veterinary use ahpuld be prepared from the root of 

 the plant 



