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will find a dead horse. In these cases it is always
advisable to give clysters which should be repeated
every half-hour, until the bowels operate ; the best
and handiest clyster is composed of oatmeal gruel, three
quarts, common salt three ounces, and olive oil half-a-
pint. Some old writers recommend blowing cayenne up
the nostrils, as well as powdered bark and spices, given
internally, and blisters behind the ears ; but these are
perfectly useless, indeed, the former are perfectly
ridiculous. Should the horse sufficiently recover to
be able to take food, boiled barley, scalded bran,
oatmeal, and lukewarm water may be given until he
has recovered enough to eat hay, when the hay should
be given in small quantities and of the best quality.
After the horse has been subjected to the scouring-out
principle, it is necessary to give medicine to give a tone
again to the stomach, and set the digestive organs
performing their offices ; for this purpose the following
will be given with advantage—lenetive electuary four
ounces, cream of tartar four ounces, purified nitre two
drachms, treacle two ounces, to be dissolved in hot ale,
and given the first thing in the morning in a tepid state.
This may be repeated two or three times, allowing two
or three days to elapse between them. If the horse
after this should not feed well, it may be necessary to
give tonic medicine, and for this purpose obtain half a
dozen tonic balls. I said in an early page of this work
that I had placed a valuable receipt for tonic balls in the
hands of Messrs. Perks and Llewellyn, chemists, Hitchin,
which they will supply with full instructions, and they
will be found all that are required to perfect a cure.