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be used in its infancy to prevent what may 

 soon become a case of trouble and disquie- 

 tude. At any rate the following plan should 

 be adopted without dela}- : 



Take rosemary, lavender flowers, southerawootl and 

 marjoram, of each a Iiajidful; boil in two or tlirec 

 quarts of water; and, putting into a pail, let the 

 horse's Iread be fixed over it as near as possible, 

 so long as the fumes passing up the nostrils can 

 be supposed to take efibct as an internal fomenta- 

 tion. 



By this method the viscid and glutinous 

 matter may be softened in the passages, and 

 the inflammatory stricture taken off the tu- 

 mefied glands. This operation should be 

 repeated twice every day : all the practice 

 and preparations recommended under tlie 

 heads of coughs and strangles, with glan- 

 dular discliarges from the nostrils, may be 

 referred to, and such methods persevered iix, 

 as there pointed out, most applicable to pre- 

 valent symptoms and concurring circum- 

 stances. 



Should the discbarge continue to increase 

 in cpaantity and virulence, becoming very of- 

 fensive both in colour and smell, not only 

 continue the before-mentioned fumigation, 

 but throw up either nostril (or both, if the 



