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or serum into the legs, sheath, belly and breast. After the fever 

 has been removed, allow good feed, and a fair quantity of it. Such 

 treatment will not only cure the horse in five or six days, but the 

 horse is nothing the worse, beyond the loss of a few days' work. 



2. Chronic Bronchitis. — Symptoms. A confirmed cough, more 

 or less severe, and a discharge from the nose. The cough worse in 

 the morning, and after drinking water. 



Causes. Maltreatment of acute cases of bronchitis, and where 

 the attack has been prolonged beyond a reasonable time, causing 

 ulceration or thickening of the windpipe. 



Treatment. Give extract of belladonna, half drachm, powdered 

 digitalis, half drachm, three times in the day, morning, noon and 

 night, for a few days. If no good seems to have been done, a 

 dififerent plan will have to be adopted, namely : feed the animal 

 well, and give sulphate of iron, two drachms in powder ; gentian 

 root, two drachms in powder twice in the day for two weeks. By 

 this time the absorbent system will be pretty powerful. Then 

 apply the following salve or ointment, well rubbed in down the 

 course of the windpipe, once in the week. Lard, one ounce ; red 

 iodide of mercury, one drachm. Mix. This will cause whatever 

 thickening may exist to be absorbed or taken up. Lard or oil will 

 have to be applied once per day on the place where the ointment 

 was applied, to prevent the skin from cracking. If the animal b» 

 debilitated, give occasionally sixty drops of commercial sulphuric 

 acid in half a bucket of cold water to drink. 



Bronchocele. — Pronounced " Bronch-sea^," is an enlargement 

 of the thyroid gland, and is situated on and in front of th<> 

 windpipe, about three inches from the lower jaw. In horses it is 

 only an eye-sore or blemish. 



Causes. In the horse it is unknown, nor is it determined what 

 ofiice or use the thyroid gland performs in man or animals. 



Treatment. Apply with friction by the hand once a week, bin- 

 iodide of mercury, one drachm ; hog's lard, one ounce. Mix, and 

 make an ointment. Rub in a piece about the size of a hickory- 

 nut over and around the enlargement. 



Broken Knees. — When a horse stumbles and falls upon his 

 knees, and takes the hair and some of the skin off, this is called 

 broken knees. 



