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blood-shot, and frequently with watery discharge from the eyes. 

 There is always an expression of sleepiness or dullness. 



Remedies 1. The diet should consist of scalded bran, and 

 other soft food, and be given warm. A quart of flax-seed tea, 

 sweetened with honey may be given night and morning. If the 

 throat is sore, a little powered bloodroot should be added. Keep the 

 bowels open with injections of warm water, into which a small 

 quantity of soft soap may be stirred. If the case is attended with a 

 troublesome cough, give plenty of meal gruel, adding to each dose 

 or administration, one drachm of balsam of fir or copaiba. 



2. An effectual remedy for the sore throat in tnis disease, is to 

 rub the throat with kerosene; then saturate two or three thicknesses 

 of flannel with the same and bind around the throat. When the 

 soreness is cured, remove the flannel gradually, a fold at a time. 



3. Mix half an ounce of nitre with water and let the horse 

 drink it. It is best first to dissolve the nitre in a pint of water, 

 which can then be added to a larger quantity as much as the horse 

 will drink. Give your horse a bran mash every second morning. 

 If the disease has become chronic, inject a weak solution of alum 

 into the nostrils. This will remove the discharge. 



Colds To cure coughs and colds give twenty grains of 

 bromide of potassium in a bucket of water, three times a day for 

 four days. This includes all kinds of cough, except that brought 

 on by heaves. Another excellent treatment is to give a cold bran 

 mash once a day with half a pound of linseed and one ounce of 

 saltpetre in each mash. 



COLIC. 



Symptoms Acute pain, stamping, looking at the flanks, roll- 

 ing; then, perhaps an interval of rest or quiet; then another 

 paroxysm, with repeated efforts to strike the belly with the legs 

 and feet, sometimes even drawing blood in their frantic struggles to 

 get relief. The surface of the belly remains cool, and the pulse but 

 slightly accelerated ; but the attacks are usually quite sudden and as 

 suddenly cease. In inflammation of the bowels the symptoms are 

 similar, but the belly is never actually touched in striking. 



Remedies 1. Give one ounce (two tablespoonfuls) of the 

 tincture of asafetida. It very seldom fails to cure in twenty to 

 thirty minutes, but if it should fail, repeat the dose. It is generally 

 known that to drench a horse with salt-water will cure some forms 

 of colic. 



2. Take soft soap 1 gill 



Warm water 3 pints. 



Inject into the rectum with a syringe or cow's horn. Usually 

 one injection is sufficient to effect a cure. 



3. Those who have employed saleratus in colic regard it as a 



