FARRIERY. 
is often brought on by violent medicines, 
especially diuretics, which should be care- 
fully avoided in this complaint. Bad food 
is also a frequent cause. The surest re- 
medy, if any can be so called, is to feed 
the horse with fresh blood, or with strong 
meat broth ; avoiding vegetables, unless it 
be good wheaten. bread. Opium, bark, 
chalk, and such tonics, and correcting 
medicines, as also the volatile liver of sul- 
phur in small doses, will be usually found 
to give relief; though a perfect cure is 
scarcely to be expected. 
Diarrhoea, or looseness, often follows the 
injudicious use of strong medicines ; and 
especially where astringents have been 
given. The complaint is sometimes criti- 
cal; in which instance it should not be 
checked, but treated with copious diluents 
of a soft kind. Sometimes hard labour, 
in bad weather especially, with bad stabling, 
or bad food, will induce this complaint, 
which is to be treated with great cau- 
tion ; lest it should degenerate into dysen- 
tery, inject the anodyne clyster, and give 
the following drink twice daily : opium two 
drachms, ipecacuanha three drqphms, pre- 
pared chalk four ounces, thin starch a pint : 
mix, and drench with it. If it does not 
answer the intention within four days, at 
farthest, give alum whey, as recommended 
for the dysentery. Avoid all astringents, 
but give no cold drink, and encourage 
sweat by means of good clothing. Litter 
well, and allow a moderate current of air 
if the stable be hot. 
Dysentery, or flux, commonly called 
molten-grease is a most painful and dan- 
gerous complaint. The animal is usually 
afflicted with tenesmus, and voids a great 
quantity of slimy mucus, and but little 
dung. Tin's disease arises from a great 
variety of causes, and in some seasons is 
said to be epidemic. 
The safest purge, in the first stage, is 
about a quart of castor oil. If that does 
not remove the feces, give calomel four 
drachms, gum arabic two drachms, with 
honey enough to form a bolus. On all 
occasions ample clysters of gruel, linseed, 
water, &c. should be frequently injected. 
In obstinate cases administer the following : 
take ten poppy-heads, boil them in six 
quarts of water till only a gallon be left, 
add starch enough to soften into a thin 
mucilage, throw up three or four times 
daily. Internally the following may answer. 
Opinm two drachms, ipecacuanha four 
drachms, nux vomica, in powder, one 
drachm, port wine one quart. Mix and 
repeat morning and evening. Let the 
horse be well clothed, so as to keep his 
skin moist; the stable should not be hot. 
If the. dung smells offensively, the stable 
must be fumigated and kept extremely 
clean. 
Farcy is easily removed in its first stage, 
when it consists of merely a superficial in- 
flammation, but if suffered to proceed, it 
quickly taints the circulation, and often 
induces the glanders. It is highly infec- 
tious ; in the first instance each bud or 
swelling, should be burnt with a hot iron, 
or by caustic ; but when the blood is in- 
fected, (which is known by the buds being 
ulcerated, and a discharge at the nose,) 
the strongest medicines must be used. 
Let a scruple of corrosive sublimate, levigat- ’ 
ed, be mixt with butter, or in gruel, and 
given in tw'o doses ; i. e. night and morn- 
ing. If the bowels should be affected, the 
dose must be less ; but if no uneasiness be 
produced, it may be increased to half a 
drachm, or even to two scruples. If the 
sublimate should prove too powerful, sub- 
stitute a drachm of calomel, night and 
morning. Green food is peculiarly service- 
able. Destroy the clothing after a cure ; 
or the disease will be regenerated. 
Fever must always be traced to its cause, 
and its particular species must be ascer- 
tained before medicine is given. If the 
common inflammatory symptoms are indi- 
cated by the pulse, the eyes, and the gene- 
ral action of the horse, bleeding, to the 
extent of three or four quarts, according to 
size and condition, ought to be immediately 
practised : after this rake, and throw up the 
following clyster : gruel, or broth, 3 quarts ; 
common salt (or Epsom salt, if at hand) 
4 ounces ; brown sugar, 4 ounces, and sweet 
oil, or melted butter, or lard, 4 ounces ; ad- 
minister blood warm, in a gentle manner. 
Give the following twice, daily : emetic 
tartar, 2 drachms ; nitre, 1 ounce ; mix in a 
pint of gruel, or form into a bolus with 
honey. Avoid whatever is heating ; let the 
animal be kept in a cool stable (not windy 
or damp) and clothe moderately. Let him 
have plenty of warm drink of a diluent 
kind ; such as bran-water, hay-tea, scalded 
malt, or warm ale ; which last, ought, how- 
ever, to be very mild. Leave a little very 
sweet hay for him to pick at : if at a proper 
season, green tares, or other young artificial 
grass may be given in small quantity. Avoid 
