344.  Stomach and bowels

Inflammation of the stomach and bowels in the horse, resembles colic in its symptoms, except in colic the pains pass off at times, and return again, whereas in inflammation, the pain is constant, and the animal is never easy; after a time the eye acquires a wild haggard, unnatural stare, and the pupil, or dark spot in the eye, dilates.

Treatment—­Take away, at once, six or eight quarts of blood, and repeat the bleeding if the pain returns.  Follow the bleeding by one scruple of opium, and two of calomel, twice a day; also blister the sides of the chest; give him bran mash and purging balls, (Receipt No. 340).

345.  Inflammation of the kidneys

The principal symptoms of inflammation of the kidneys in the horse, is, pressure on the loins elicit symptoms of pain, the breathing is hurried, there is a constant desire to void urine, although passed in small quantities, highly coloured, and sometimes tinged with blood.

Treatment—­This is blood letting, active purging, mustard poultices as near the kidneys as possible, and the horse warmly clothed, &c., as in other inflammations.

346.  Condition powders

Take of flax-seed meal 2 lbs., finygreek meal 2 lbs., liver antimony 1/2 lb., and nitre 1/2 lb., mix well; give a tablespoon for three days and omit three days, &c.

347.  For bone spavin

Take of cantharides 2 oz., strong mercurial ointment 4 oz., oil of turpentine 4 oz., iodine 3 oz., mix all with a sufficiency of lard to make a thin ointment; apply to the spavin only once a day until it bursts; then oil it with sweet oil until healed.  If the bunch is not then removed, apply it again, and again if necessary, which is seldom the case.

348.  To make A horse follow you

The horse is treated in the same manner as mentioned in the receipt No. 305, always being careful to whip him on the hips.  When he will follow you round the barn floor, then treat him in the same manner in a yard, and when he follows you here, he will any place.

349.  Colts chewing halters

Take scab from the wart on the inside of the leg, rub the halter thoroughly with it, and they will not be found chewing their halters very soon.

[There are two consecutive receipts numbered 350 in the original.]

350.  Horses jumping fences

Pass a small and strong cord around his body just behind his shoulders, and tie the halter to this cord between his forelegs, so as to leave the distance about two feet from the cord to his head; if then he attempts to jump, he is compelled to throw his head forward, which draws hard on the cord, and causes it to cut into his back, and he instantly desists.  The cord should not be more than a quarter of an inch in diameter.