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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
Two hours afterwards give the following purgative, in the 
form of a hall:— 
Barbadoes aloes . 5 drachms, 
Castile soap . . . drachm, 
Oil of caraways . . 8 drops. 
Also use fomentations, and in most instances the swelling 
will subside as rapidly as it appeared. 
SWELLING FROM INACTIVITY. 
The most troublesome, as well as the most frequent 
swelling in the limbs, is that caused by inactivity, from high 
feeding and want of due exercise. One kind is accompanied 
by actual or comparative debility, or loss of power in the 
part affected. Those horses which are over-fed, without 
exercise, are liable to swellings in the limbs from the arterial 
capillary vessels having sent forth an over-portion of fluid 
to the extremities, and in consequence of the want of 
muscular exertion and the perspiration naturally connected 
with it; and the fluids having accumulated in the extre¬ 
mities, in consequence of the vessels not having sufficient 
power to return them. The heart is thus acting upon an 
additional quantity of fluid ; while, by the want of exercise, 
the limbs are deprived of that power by which the fluids 
are returned. 
Remedies. —The above physic and diuretic should be ad¬ 
ministered. These will lessen the quantity of fluid ; also 
exercise the horse freely, which will increase the perspiration 
externally, and diminish it internally, and the veins and 
absorbents will attain more activity, so that the complaint 
will gradually subside, and the limbs resume their wonted 
appearance. 
SWELLINGS AFTER GRASS. 
It is a common occurrence for horses just taken in Iron 
