1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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moisture at the roots of his ears and about hia flanks, and, when he lies at rest a little while, begins to perspire strongly, and to get covered with sweat more or less profuse. In most cases of ordinary gripes, signs of flatu- lence, or of the presence of air confined in the bowels, occur, and constitute a part of the disease, or increase it. The removal of it is, therefore, an object to which the attention of most grooms has been in a chief degree directed ; and as it can frequently be got rid of, and the disease cured, by exciting the powerful action of the intestines, cordial and stimu- lating medicines are had recourse to, and no doubt in many have afforded relief. Some farriers, indeed, without much care in distinguishing cases, almost exclusively rely upon such, and employ them too freely. This, however, should not be done ; for it sometimes happens that disorders not unlike flatu- lent colic or gripes occur when there is neither pent-up air present, nor any relaxation or want of energy and action in the intestines themselves ; and stimulating medicines might then do no good, but often much mischief. When the disorder is early discovered, or has newly come on, it will be proper to lose no time to get ready a clyster, and likewise a medicinal draught for removing the wind and abating the pain. After removing with the hand any excrement in the great gut that can be reached by it, a clyster, made of 5 or 6 quarts of water or water-gruel, blood-warm, and 6 or 8 ounces of common salt, may be ijijected ; and one or the other of the following draughts may be o-iven before, or about the same time:

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