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distributed among them, should be scalded, and, when blood-warm, placed 
in the manger. 
Frequently, this is all that is required, and the disorder is well cured, 
which yields without medicine. Should the bowels prove obstinate, and 
after the second day continue constipated, a mild dose of solution of 
aloes should be administered. 
Solution of aloes . . . . . . . . +. Four ounces. 
Essence of aniseseed . . . . . . . +. Half an ounce. 
Wate. a ok ret A Oe ns Hey a Gee oe SOnerpints 
Mix, and give. 
This, with the diet previously recommended, is rarely required, as the 
food alone, so far as the author’s experience can justify an opinion, never 
fails in relaxing the body. However, should the sore throat remain, 
dissolve half an ounce of extract of belladonna in one gallon of water. 
Hold up the head of the animal and put half a pint of this liquid into 
the mouth; allow the fluid to be retained for thirty seconds, then take 
away the support, and the medicine will run from the lips. Repeat this 
frequently, or from six to eight times during the day. 
If the soreness of the throat should appear indisposed to heal, but, on 
the contrary, should seem inclined to spread, lose no time in resorting to 
the next preparation. Permanganate of potash, (prepared by Squires, 
chemist, of Oxford Street,) half a pint; distilled water, one gallon; half 
a pint to be used to cleanse the horse’s mouth, in the manner just directed 
for diluted belladonna, six times daily, or— 
Chloride of zinc. . . . . . . ) .)))06 Three drachms. 
Extract of belladonna. . . . . . =. . Half an ounce. 
Tincture of capsicums . .. . . . . Two drachms. 
Water. - « « + One gallon. 
Mix, and use as directed for the previous recipe. 
Occasionally the disease does not spread, but, spite of our best en- 
deavors, it will remain stationary. Then try the brewers’ stout. Give 
one quart morning and evening. However, see that the animal has the 
beer, for men are partial to that fluid, even more than horses. Should 
no change be remarked in forty-eight hours, blister the throat. Do this 
with one part of powdered cantharides soaked for a month in seven 
parts of olive oil, adding to the whole one part by weight of camphor. 
Rub this oil, when filtered through blotting paper, into the throat for 
ten minutes in summer, and a quarter of an hour in winter. 
All the endeavors may be useless. Then cast the horse. Have ready 
some nitrate of silver, dissolved in distilled water—five grains of the 
active salt to one ounce of the fluid. Saturate in the solution a sponge 
four inches wide, tied on to the end of a stick eighteen inches long. 
Have the sponge made as dry as possible without squeezing it. Puta 
