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management, the sudden changes from heat to cold, 

 and the lungs having breathed impure air from the 

 filth and confined atmosphere of the stable. Inflam- 

 mation of the lungs, feet, or any other part of the 

 body is always accompanied by fever. 



REMEDIES. Gentle laxatives will be found bene- 

 ficial, but strong ones exceedingly injurious. The 

 following should be given morning and evening 

 until the temperature becomes normal : 



Nitric ether . I ounce, 



Liq. ammon. acetate ... 4 ounces, 

 Water I pint. 



The above may be slightly augmented or dimin- 

 ished, according to circumstances. 



Symptomatic fever should be treated in the same 

 manner as simple fever, only that attention must be 

 directed to the diseased part which caused the fever. 

 If the inflammation can be subdued, then the fever 

 will naturally abate, without other means being 

 adopted. 



STOMACH-STAGGERS. 



SYMPTOMS. This disease is indicated by the dull, 

 stupid, sleepy appearance of the horse, and he staggers 

 about in his stall. He seems unconscious of what he 

 is doing, and if roused from his lethargy will probably 

 take a mouthful of hay, in a few seconds desist from 

 chewing, and the hay will fall from his mouth. Many 

 instances have occurred, when the disease has been 

 allowed to acquire an ascendancy, that the horse 

 would drop down and die while in the act of eating. 

 In other cases the drowsiness goes off, and is suc- 

 ceeded by delirium ; and after falling, rising, and 

 staggering about, will die in convulsions. 



