150 On the Yclloiv TFater of Horses. 



what I have collected, it appears to me, that those at 

 grass, exposed to hot days and damp, dewy and chilly 

 nights, are tlie most subject to this disorder. Stabling 

 or shecls^ to cover them at nights, would be salutary. 

 A member of this society (our vice president, J. Curwen 

 Esq.) lost an horse with this disorder, kept in a large 

 pasture field, without communicating with any other 

 horse, for a great length of time. Two or three, among 

 30 or 40 others, have died in livery stables, with the 

 yellow water ; and none of the rest have caught the dis- 

 order. 



I omitted mentioning, that, as soon as I perceived my 

 first horse to be ill, I turned the other three out of the 

 stable, on an extensive lawn, or open field. They were 

 playful, and coursed violently, for an hour or more., 

 through my grounds; and induced an opinion that they 

 were safe. But this exercise excited^^ lurking disease. 

 For in a few hours, one fell apparently lifeless, and 

 shortly afterwards died. He was raised on his legs, for 

 some time previously to his catastrophe, by a copious 

 bleeding. The other two, though less affected, shev/ed 

 for the first time, symptoms of languor, and stiffness in 

 their hind legs and quarters. 



The tonsils, or almonds, of the ears, of horses dead 

 with this disorder, have been found (as I have heard) 

 much swelled. I have been told of cures performed b}' 

 the cautery [hot iron] applied behind the ears, and an 

 incision being made, it was stuffed with salt; so as to 

 produce suppuration. I much doubt whether the dis- 

 order was the yellow water, thus cured. This is not a 

 disease so local, as are the glanders, strangles, or vives. 

 It is not attended -with defiiixiojis, like a common horse 

 disorder. 



