228 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



and the glands below each of the ears are often 

 swollen. 



Treatment. — Take away two quarts of blood ;* 

 in this case never more than three. Blister 

 the throat. Give half a drachm of digitalis, 

 one drachm of antimonial powder, and three 

 drachms of nitre, dissolved in two wine-glasses 

 of hot water, and then mixed in three ounces 

 of the simple oxymel, p. 225, three times a- 

 day. As much warm bran tea f as he will 

 drink should also be given, and the dhool held 

 up as high as the chest, that he may not be 

 distressed by lowering his head. Not more than 

 half a seer of boiled grain must be put into 

 each bran mash, but lucern or green grass should 

 be put in the trough as high as his chest. Dry 

 grass irritates the throat ; so, if no green meat 

 is to be had, more boiled food, as turnips, car- 

 rots, &;c., should be allowed instead. He must 

 be left to his loose cool stall, with a bed, and 

 well jhooled at night and the early part of the 

 morning, if it is the cold weather. The digi- 

 talis is to be discontinued after three days, and 

 the antimonial powder and nitre, after six. The 

 bowels must be opened by clysters every other 



* See " Bleeding/* p. 85. \ See " Bran Tea," p. 97. 



