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rough coat, poor appetite, and more or less 

 cough, which if neglected, often becomes serious, 

 if not dangerous. 



TREATMENT. 



Give Aconite 30 to 40 drops in a little water, 

 as often as necessary, at intervals of two hours, 

 keeping horse well blanketed in comfortable 

 stable. Nurse careful ty and feed bran mashes. 

 If there is much inflammation of the throat, use 

 liniment of Aqua Ammonia 2 ounces, Oil Ori- 



anum 1 ounce, Camphorated Spirits 1 ounce, 

 pirits Turpentine 1 ounce; use 3 or 4 times each 

 day, by bathing well under throat and about the 

 jaws; or make a thick mustard paste by scald- 

 ing the mustard with just boiling water enough 

 to wet it, cover and let steep 5 or 10 minutes and 

 add just vinegar sufficient to form a paste that 

 will adhere to the hair and skin, with which daub 

 well under throat and about the chest repeating 

 as often as necessary. Continue bran mashes 

 and give the horse flax seed tea to drink and 

 with good nursing he will soon recover. 



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This is known by soreness of throat and 

 stiffness of neck, followied by swelling of throat 

 * and under jaw. The mucus membrane of nose 

 is more or less inflamed and some discharge; 

 swelling so great sometimes as almost to SJiflo- 

 cate, with very little appetite or disposition to 

 drinK. 



