52 Pneumonia 



TREATMENTS 



Allow the horse to breath steam from a bucket containing hot water 

 with 6 or 7 teaspoonsful of turpentine to 1 gallon of water. If the case 

 is severe, continue the treatment for several hours continually renewing 

 the water when it gets too cool to steam. If the case is a mild one 4 or 

 5 buckets full a day are usually sufficient. 



A blister applied on the outside surface externally to the effected 

 parts is of benelit. Such a blister would be: Spanish Fly, 1 part, 

 Lard, 4 parts. 



Apply once daily and rub in well or if preferred: Red Iodide of 

 Mercury 1 part, Lard 4 parts. 



Hot clothes applied to sv/ellings will give relief. Feed soft feeds 

 as milk. Some horses will drink it others will not. Don't drench. Bran, 

 linseed meal and scalded oats are among the more desirable feeds. 



PNEUMONIA 



[Lung Fever) 



I never have known of a horse running in the open fields during 

 the winter months developing pneumonia, provided they have forage to 

 pick and shelter from rain and snow. In my years of experience win- 

 tering idle horses, I never have been able to keep horses in as good con- 

 dition when stall fed, (grain and hay) with a lot to exercise in as when 

 they have some kind of forage to pick at in the open fields, without grain 

 and stabled only during nights of snow and rain. I attribute the results 

 due to the laxative effect of the forage, exercise and plenty of fresh air. 

 Drafts in stables and poor ventilation are two very common causes of 

 pneumonia. The pneumonia germ does not seem to develop well in 

 the presence of pure air. Standing in storms of snow or rain are com- 

 mon causes of pneumonia. Foreign bodies getting into the lungs 

 allowing a warm horse to cool off quickly in cold weather predis- 

 poses to pneumonia. Foreign bodies getting into the lungs either from 

 drenching or improper swallowing of food sometimes causes pneu- 

 monia and pleurisy, 



SYMPTOMS 



The membranes of the air passages are continuously exposed to 

 the air and hence they are probably more susceptible or liable to dis- 



