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TREATMENT. 



Purge well with Glauber Salts, and feed con- 

 dition powders, a tablespooriful twice a day, or 

 powdered Hyposulphite of Soda, a teaspoonful 

 three times a day, and wash three times per day 

 with salt water, made not very strong. 



IAUNDICE, OR YELLOW 



Is known by yellowish appearance of skin, 

 occasioned by the bile not being properly car- 

 ried off, but is absorbed by the cutaneous vessels 

 thereby impregnating the whole superficial 

 system; the skin, flesh, and every part if dis- 

 cernable would be found overcharged with biliary 

 matter. 



SYMPTOMS. 



The white of the eyes, nose and month, will 

 present the first symptoms, as well as seen in the 

 urine. Previous, however, to the above positive 

 signs, it may be observed that the horse is dull 

 and indolent in his movements, and when stand- 

 ing droops his head forward, becomes weaker 

 and weaker; eyelids close and he shows less dis- 

 position to move, reels, and sometimes falls, in 

 attempting to walk; pulse faster, disturbed res- 

 piration, bowels costive, and urine through the 

 whole course of the disease, scant and yellow. 



TREATMENT. 



If in grass time, turn the horse out where he 

 has a mixture of dandelion, and if not improv- 



