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disease gradually. Many colts are lost every year by checking the 

 discharge too suddenly. 



2. Give the whites of three eggs and a teaspoonful of alum 

 at each feed until cured. This is for the full grown horse; if it be 

 a colt affected, rub the gums from the center-nippers above and 

 below, and give one third the quantity. 



3. If long continued give, powdered ipecac, one drachm, pow- 

 dered opium, twenty grains, and castor oil six to eight grains, in a 

 pint of boiled starch; give every six hours, up to three or four 

 doses, for a full grown horse. 



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Symptoms At first the horse is dull or dumpish, indicating 

 debility. This is a remarkable feature which seldom presents itself 

 in any other form of disease so early. To a casual observer, the 

 horse looks as if he had been sick for months. The eye is also 

 indicative of the disease; its vessels are turgid and have a red 

 appearance, hence the term 1'ink Eye. The lids are swollen, and 

 the animal shrinks from light as if its rays caused pain; the tears 

 trickle from the eye. The hind legs swell, and frequently other 

 parts of the animal become dropsical. This swelling of the legs, 

 be it more or less, is, with the other features named, characteristic 

 of the disease. The hair has an unhealthy appearance. The ears, 

 nose and limbs are cold or hot, according to the stage of the dis- 

 ease. 



The appetite is poor from the first, and any attempt to swallow 

 shows the throat to be excessively sore. The back part of the 

 mouth is thickly coated, and saliva runs freely although not always, 

 as sometimes the mouth is dry and feverish; the excrements are 

 voided in small quantities; all the functions are torpid as is the 

 animal itself. In a few days a nasal discharge sets in, which is con- 

 sidered a favorable symptom. Sometimes, however, the disease 

 terminates in abscesses under the jaws, and the animal has a trouble- 

 some cough. These are the main features of this disease, but they 

 vary in different subjects, both in mode of attack, intensity, dura- 

 tion and termination. 



Remedies 1. The smoke of sulphur, in the stable until 

 the horse coughs slightly, will facilitate a cure. 



2. The following remedy is much in vogue with farmers in 

 the West, and is said to be an excellent remedy: Throw live coals 

 into a tin can ; put on feathers ; then put the can in a sack and hold 

 over the horse's nostrils until he begins to cough. Repeat two or 

 three times, unless a free discharge of the nostrils is sooner pro- 

 duced. 



3. Good nursing is the best treatment. Blanket the animal, 

 and let the stable be well ventilated, but free from draft. For the 



