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of food. There has been another evacuation, but, like the rest, 
it was small in quantity, and hard. Tempt him with carrots and 
green food, and remove his hay. 
20th. — Scarcely any change. We must no longer play with 
the thing. Give one pound and a half of Epsom salts, and three 
drachms of ginger. 
21st. — The state of the evacuations just the same, but he looks 
more lively, and feeds better. He is evidently improved. 
22 d . — He began last night to call a little for his food ; the 
first time he has done so since his illness. This morning as soon 
as he heard the keeper he sung out lustily for it. He eats as 
well as ever, and toddles about his place in his usual manner. 
Give him very little hay, but supply him with mashes, carrots, 
and green food. I trust that now we may regard him as safe. 
23 d . — His appearance is most gratifying : he will eat any 
thing that we give him — he is regaining all his usual habits — in 
fact, he is well. Give him a small quantity of nee and hay ; 
supply him with carrots and tares, and lucern, yet not too 
plentifully even with these. 
21th. — Doing well. 
Sept. 17th. — Feeds well, is in good spirits, but begins to eat 
his own dung, and lap his urine, and these weie precursor symp- 
toms of his last illness. Give him two quarts of castor oil in 
his water. 
18M. — He took three-fourths of his oil, but it has not ope- 
rated. Although he is not absolutely ill, he is dull, and does not 
feed well. He is evidently uneasy, and every now and then 
seems disposed to roll. Try to give him one pound and a half 
of Epsom salts in solution. He was hampered as formerly, and 
w r as very decently quiet about it ; and we proceeded to drench 
him : but the moment he tasted the salts, he began to 6ght in the 
most furious manner. He broke his collar, and broke the ropes, 
and would have had the beam and the house down, if we had 
not released him ; and no sooner was he released, than he put 
every one of us to flight. He had had now a little colicky pain ; 
but on the former occasion he laboured under the prostration of 
strength and spirits which often accompanies enteritis. 
10th. — He is better — he has been amusing himself by gallop- 
ing about. He has had two or three evacuations, but he is not 
well. Watch him. 
20tli. — Apparently recovered : — strike him off the sick list. 
