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hofore urged, air, liglit, ventilation, and cleanliness in the stable. 

 As a preventive, when one horse has the disease separate him 

 from the rest, where they cannot possibly take his breath, and 

 fumigate and wash with tobacco water as recommended after 

 glanders-. Treatment. — Wash the neck and throat with a strong 

 decoction of tobacco, as hot as the horse can bear it, two or 

 three times a day. Give sulphur and resin, two pounds of the 

 former to one of the latter. Contrive to make the horse eat a 

 quarter of a pound of this every day, for several days. Give 

 mashes, boiled oats, or green feed, but no corn. If the swelling 

 continues, but does not soften, poultice with steaming mashes ; 

 when it softens open it at once. 



Dr. Stewart recommends bleeding three pints, " then take 

 and thoroughly mix together one tablespoonful of gunpowder, 

 one of lard, one of soft soap, one of gum myrrh, and two of tar ; 

 put a spoonful of this down the horse's throat, as far as you can, 

 with a paddle or spoon, twice a day." Nasal Gleet is usually 

 a continuation of distemper, or, rather of the discharge accom- 

 panying distemper. We confess that we do not know its cause. 

 The symptoms are an irregular discharge, often mixed with 

 blood. It will sometimes cease for a few days, and then recur. 

 The discharge changes color with the food. Leave the horse to 

 himself, in an ordinary, dark, ill ventilated, filthy stable, and 

 you will soon have an incurable case of glanders. If this is not 

 desired, treat the same as for distemper, washing out the nose 

 daily with the tobacco water, until the discharge ceases. Good 

 pa.-;ture, if in mild weather, and good stabling, if cold or wet, 

 are requisite. If stabled give some green food and roots, with 

 daily out-door exercise. 



Diseases of the Eye are almost, if not wholly, unknown 

 m the wild horse, being the result of the carelessness or cruelty 

 of man. They are very seldom hereditary, as a blind mare will 



