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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
M A SOLS. 
The word Masol implies medicine; but custom has confined 
it to cordials, a class of medicine much required in this climate. 
The most proper times for administering them are during wet and 
cold weather, after or during long-continued and severe exercise, 
as campaigning and night marches, in which last they are par- 
ticularly serviceable, and ought to be given to every horse after 
or during such service, and which, I am convinced, would fre- 
quently be the means of saving them. 
During one of these marches, two horses died in consequence 
of exhaustion, which, from my observations on the operation of 
medicine in this country, would have been saved had timely and 
diffusible cordials been administered. We had, one morning, 
marched twelve or fourteen miles. After we arrived at our ground, 
we received an order to be on our horses at four in the afternoon, 
and marched till seven o'clock next morning, over a very rough 
country, the horses having no kind of support during that time. 
One of the best horses in the 6th Native Cavalry was exhausted 
about three miles before we came to our place of destination, and 
his rider with difficulty led him the remaining distance, when the 
animal was seized with strong general convulsions, and died in a 
few minutes. If a powerful diffusible cordial had been adminis- 
tered when the horse first appeared exhausted, there is scarcely a 
doubt that the animal would almost instantly have recovered. 
One of the gun-horses of the 25th Dragoons died in a very similar 
manner on the same march, and might, no doubt, have been saved 
by the above remedy, which, unfortunately, could not be procured. 
I think, to prevent such losses, every farrier, salistry, or quarter- 
master of a troop, previous to these forced marches, should be 
supplied with a pint bottle of turpentine, and as many cordial 
bolusses as there are horses, which cordials should be given when 
they have performed about two-thirds of their march ; and if any 
horse is affected, as in the above cases, about a claret-glass of 
turpentine should be mixed with an equal quantity of water, and 
poured down his throat by means of a horn. Friction of the ex- 
tremities and warm clothing would also assist. This plan could 
be pursued without any inconvenience, and would frequently be 
the means of preserving a valuable animal. 
Cordial bolusses should be in the possession of every person in 
the habit of keeping a horse, as most of those diseases which 
prove so rapidly fatal proceed from exhaustion, and can be re- 
lieved only by immediately administering very diffusible cordials. 
What I mean by cordials, are medicines supposed to have the 
same effects as masols, and which I recommend as their sub- 
