DlSTEMPEB AND SlEANQLES. 1C7 



TREATMENT. In all cases of Fever, the FEVER 

 SPECIFIC, A A, is the first and generally the only 

 medicine required. Give a dose of fifteen drops at 

 intervals of two or three hours at first, and by de- 

 grees at longer intervals, and not only will the fever 

 be removed, but likewise all danger of its locating 

 itself upon some organ or part of the system. Should 

 such localization threaten, the FEVER SPECIFIC, A A, 

 will still be the appropriate and best medicine. This 

 SPECIFIC, A A, may be continued from day to day 

 at intervals of three hours. Only if the fever as- 

 sumes a typhoid character, with symptoms of great 

 prostration or debility, give the SPECIFIC I I in alter- 

 nation with the SPECIFIC A A, at the same intervals. 



Distemper, or Strangles. 



This is a disease incident to young horses, gener- 

 ally appearing between the third and fifth year, when 

 the teeth are being shed, and is much more liable 

 to appear in the Spring than at any other season of 

 the year. Almost every horse has it, and but on r e 

 in a lifetime. It is an idiopathic fever, followed by 

 discharges in various parts of the body, generally 

 under the jaw. 



SYMPTOMS. The disease begins with symptoms 

 of a common cold; the horse is 'dull and depressed, 

 eats little or no food, coughs now and then ; the coat 

 stares, the pulse is slightly quickened, the mouth be- 

 comes hot and dry, and afterward frothy fluid 

 comes from it ; the throat sore, the nose red, and 

 matter flows from it. The glands under the jaw be- 

 come swelled, hot, and painful, to such an extent as 

 to cause " quidding," or dropping of food when 



