SPECIFIC AND CATARRHAL COMPLAINTS 



are equally useful. Allow cold water to drink, and add two 

 drachms of powdered nitre to it night and morning. No 

 purgative medicine must be permitted. Small doses, say, table- 

 spoonful, of Epsom Salts added to the drinking water, are 

 very useful. Treacle (say half a pound) or a few tablespoonsful 

 of linseed oil may be added to a small mash. The body ought 

 to be lightly, yet warmly, clad, and the limbs bandaged. The 

 temperature of the stable must be kept as near 60° Fahr. 

 as possible. A small stove or oil lamp will usually suffice, 

 if the animal is in a loose box. A dry straw bed is, of course, 

 a sine qua non. If the cough is troublesome, rub the throat 

 with turpentine liniment or mustard paste, and swathe the 

 throat with a woollen cloth. In addition to this give the 

 horse half a drachm of extract of belladonna and two 

 drachms of powdered chlorate of potash, mixed with honey, 

 three times daily. Simply smear the foregoing electuary on 

 the inner side of the cheek. When the animal is recovering, 

 let it have gentle exercise, along with some tonic medicine, such 

 as sulphate of iron, 2 drs., powdered columba, 2 drs., in the 

 form of a powder, and along with the food, night and morning. 



STRANGLES. 



This is a very common affection, and one specially prone 

 to attack the young, though age does not confer immunity, 

 neither does a previous attack of the same malady render the 

 animal proof against a second illness, though we are inclined to 

 believe that a prior attack of strangles diminishes the risk of 

 infection. 



In its simple and usual form the malady is denoted by the 

 appearance of a gradually progressive abscess, beneath, or 

 between, the branches of the lower jaw. In some instances 



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