MASH

—is a name given to a kind of universal PANACEA for horses during a course of PHYSIC , or labouring under COUGH , COLD , or DISEASE . Mashes are differently made, according to the nece ity which occasions their being brought into use: some are made with BRAN and HONEY ; others with equal parts of OATS and BRAN , with or without honey; but the most fragrant, useful, attracting, and invigorating, is made from GROUND MALT , with such proportion of BRAN as will disunite the glutinous adhesive property of the MALT , and reduce its sweetne enough to prevent a satiety by its clammine in mastication. Malt mashes (and the liquid pre ed from them) horses will generally take in different dangerous disorders, as FEVERS , INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS , STRANGLES , . when they will take (spontaneously) no other kind of FOOD or NUTRIMENT . Mashes should be always made of ingredients perfectly SWEET , without the least taint of mustine , and in pails or ve els free from every po ibility of grease ; they should also be prepared with water boiling hot , which being once stirred together, may then be covered down till of a proper warmth to be placed in the manger; which should never be of greater heat than new milk from the cow, unle in cases where a FUMIGATION may be required to relax and take off a stricture from the glandular parts, and promote a discharge from the nostrils.