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limes mucous fluid from the nose; and the act of respiration is 

 performed with a vheezing noise. 



3. '■ The third variety has been named the epidemic." Give 

 two oances of Epsom salts, in a pint of salt and water, pretty 

 warm ; while this do.-e is being prepared, wash the wliole neck 

 and chest with a decoction of tobacco, weak, but hot. Now put 

 one ounce each of gentian and ginger in a quart of water, and 

 boil until one half evaporates. Divide this into four doses, 

 and give night and morning. Continue these until improve- 

 ment in the patient is perceptible. We also wish to cover 

 the jnucous membranes. Slippery elm is the best possible 

 article ; into two quarts of boiling water, stir just enough to 

 thicken it, not quite as thick as cream ; make four doses of it, 

 and give twice daily. Keep the bowels loose by means of 

 warm gruels and mashes. Dadd says: "i^me /tW, scalded and 

 set before the animal warm, answers two purposes, viz., that of 

 relaxing the engorged surfaces of the nose and throat, and also 

 has a relaxing effect on the bowels. If the bowels should re- 

 main closed, inject warm soapsuds. Pneumonia, or inflamma- 

 tion of the iungs, is the next stage of the disease; it is usually 

 ushered in with a chill, (the horse shivering all ovei), succeeded 

 by unnatural warmth of the body and coldness of the extremi- 

 ties ; the pulse is quick, breathing short, quick, and hard ; a sure 

 symptom is the icy coldness of the extremities. If you do not 

 conclude to end these sufferings with the bullet, treat vigorously 

 as recommended for bronchitis. Congestion is the last stage of 

 pneumonia, and unless death follows immediately, the horse is 

 spared for the finishing stroke of Consumption, for which we 

 prescribe no cure, as there is none. 



Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. 



The BoT is a natural inhabitant of the stomach of the horse. 

 His history is as follows : The gadfly, that torment of the horse. 



