On the Yellow TVater of Horses. 147. 



would agitate questions, and bring to light useful facts, 

 and remedies would follow. 



The disagreements in opinion, whether the yelloxv 

 ■water ^ be endetnial (if this phrase can be properly thus 

 applied) or contagions, are as great, and as unsatisfac- 

 torj'", as are those in the case oi yellow fever; to which 

 it seems to bear some resemblance. The wisest course, 

 is not to risque a well horse, among the sick. 



The remedies are by no means well ascertained. Nitre 

 and sulphur, creme of tartar, antimony, and such drugs, 

 may sometimes answer as preventives, or gentle aperi- 

 ents diXid. sudorifics ; but are, of themselves, too feeble, 

 when the disease is fixed. Balls composed of mustard 

 and camphor, are said to be preventives. I have expe- 

 rienced the efficacy of camphor, given to sheep tainted 

 with the rot. Pills of camphor given to poultry I have 

 found very serviceable this season ; having saved many 

 by them, from a fatal disease, of which gi'eat numbers 

 died. I lost few or none of those, to whom the cam- 

 phor was given. I should think mustard and camphor 

 too heating, if any fever appeared in a sick horse, un- 

 less applied in cataplasms. The pulse of an horse beats, 

 from 40, to 45 times, in a minute. If it exceeds 45, 

 he is feverish. The pulsation may be felt in any of the 

 arteries ; particularly those of the neck and breast. 



The symptoms, I cannot accurately, or technically 

 describe. The disease first appears in a dulness of the 

 eyes; the whites whereof are Jau?idiced or yellow. But 

 they frequently, at intervals, become bright ; and flatter 

 with hopes of recovery. The ears hang, and are sel- 

 dom erect, or pointed. The tail is often projected ho- 

 rizontally, with a quick motion, and dropped in a man. 



