mixture may be made, which will be found peculiarly useful to amend the state of the evacuations, and should be repeated every other day, giving the following ball also, twice every day :

Opium

Calomel

:

mixed with honey to make a ball. No apprehension need be entertained that the calomel will increase the diarrhoea, as the opium will sufficiently restrain it: observing, that should the disease be protracted beyond the third day, the calomel must not be persisted in, for fear of salivation; but, instead, a course of tonics with steel may be entered on for four or five days, and then have recourse to the calomel, &c. &c., as an additional security against relapse. In other respects, as diet, clothing, &c. &c., treat as Colic.

WEARINESS.

Mr. White says, "that fermented liquors, such as beer, porter, or wine, have been often given with great advantage in cases which required cordials. I have often seen horses that have been so fatigued with a long chase or journey, as to refuse their food, and appear quite exhausted, wonderfully refreshed by taking a cordial ball in a pint or more of beer, and feed soon after with great alacrity. The advantage thus derived is not merely temporary, as they are by this treatment rendered adequate to another chase or journey much quicker than they would otherwise be. I once gave," continues this gentleman, "six ounces of brandy diluted, with the best effect to a horse that was once done up on a journey; it enabled him to continue it without any apparent inconvenience."

THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC COUGH.

This must depend on our view of its causes and consequence. When it appears to arise from a want of mucous secretion, expoctrance which excites such secretions are premised, as number 1: when a redundancy of the mucous secretion is apparent, tonics are required. When the secretion is acrid, give number 2. The cough, which is the effect of an irritable state of the parts, is sometimes relieved by stimulating the throat externally, and by giving internally opium with bitter tonics. When horses have naturally a full habit, and grossly fed, without sufficient exercise, our attempts must be directed to lower their general plethora by bleeding, exercise, and more moderate feeding if at grass, a less luxuriant pasture should be chosen; in the stable, such a horse should be muzzled at night to prevent him eating his litter, and his water should be given in moderate quantities, only all sudden exertions likewise should be as much as possible avoided.

I have frequently seen chronic cough benefitted by a course of mercurial physic, but the affection in such cases was probably dependant on worms; and whenever a continued cough exists, with irregular appetite and unthrifty coat, stools fœtid and slimy, at one time loose, at another hard and dry, it is more than probable that worms occasion the affection. In all chronic coughs, the best effects sometimes follow from feeding with carrots, turnips, parsnips; beet and po tatoes may be beneficially used where carrots cannot be got; and a mash with bran and linseed, or malt, may be occasionally given. In cases of this description, which may be suspected to be depended coagulable

lymph deposited within the trachea or bronchia, the rubbing in of mercurial ointment the whole length for a week would be advisable, and then to blister the like extent of surface.

made into a ball with honey, and given fasting.

made into a ball with honey, and given in the mornings.

To either of the above may be added, with benefit in some cases, one or two drachms of tartar emetic.

INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA

OFTEN arises from the effects of purging; but purging only causes the constitutional tendency to the disease being brought into effect, and producing debility, from the medicine, which becomes the exciting cause; the disease then being constitutional it will direot us to notice the proper remedies.

Form this into a mass with soft soap, and divide into six balls. Give one every second morning, fasting.

Or, take

Sulphate of Copper

Or

- 12 drachms.

- 12 drachms.

Take either of the above, and form into a mass with linseed meal and soap, and divide into six balls, and give one every morning.

Setons between the jaw seems to do some good, and the following has been used satisfactorily:

Rub this on the cheek and round the eye till small pimples arise; but especial care must be taken that none be allowed to enter the eye of the horse, which would be highly injurious.

STRAINS IN GENERAL.

STRAINS are of two kinds: the one originating in the ligamentary parts, by which the different joints are preserved in contact; the other by a relaxation of the muscles or tendons, or by a rupture of any of the membranes covering or adhering to such tendons, whose purposes are the direct office of motion. Hence

it is, that the farrier and groom are so frequently at a loss for their definition of any particular lameness, fixing by conjecture upon any part, attributing it to any cause but the right; and to this they are seldom di.. rected by any mental information, possessing a very barren conception of the structure of parts, their purposefs or their appropriations.

The elastic part of a tendon or sinew is the muscular, to which, in fact, the tendon is a continuation only, with this difference, the tendon is made by nature to occupy a much smaller space than muscle, for it would look rather awkward to see the muscles of the fore-leg extending down to the heels of the horse, instead of that fine uniform make which the tendons give, and especially in the race-horse: the tendon is not of that elastic nature that some writers have described, but it is the inuscular end where the elasticity exists; this, at first sight, would appear strange, for the injury takes place in the tendon, not in the muscle; and for this reason the non-elasticity of the tendon and its sheath will rather submit to rupture, and that for want of the elastic quality. These tendons or sinews are strong substances, composed of innumerable threads or fibres, possessing the properties of extension and contraction to a certain degree, beyond which their flexibility cannot be extended without palpable injury and certain lameness; for by over straining their elastic quality, small as it is, rupture is the consequence, and lameness in proportion to the injury sustained.

To render this idea as clear as I possibly can, and that it cannot be misunderstood even by the merest tyro in horse-knowledge, let us suppose that the horse is going at his best pace on the trot, and in so doing his toe covers a prominence, or the edge of one, where the heel has no support, the consequence is, an exten