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This is the way many diseases and fevers are us-hered in. If the 

 chill be checked soon, it will stop, in many cases, the disease that 

 was forming. For this purpose, give twenty drops of the tincture 

 of aconite root in a wine-glassful of water, and pour down the 

 throat, out of a short-necked bottle ; cover the body with a blanket, 

 and rub the legs to bring the circulation to the surface of the body, 

 and all will be well. 



Choking. — Choking very rarely occurs in horses ; very fre- 

 quently in cattle. If choking should occur in the horse, there is 

 little chance or hope of saving his life, if he be a spirited animal, 

 and the substance be high in the gullet. In a very extensive 

 practice, embracing many years, I have never seen a case of chok- 

 ing in the horse, except on a few occasions, and then it was only a 

 ball of aloes sticking in the throat. If a ball of any thickness 

 stick in its passage to the stomach, and it have passed down some 

 distance, it is called low choke, and is not so dangerous, as if it 

 stick in the entrance to the gullet — high choke. 



Treatment. In low choke press down with the hand over the 

 substance in the gullet, and try to move it. Do this not too 

 strongly, but continue it for a time. If unsuccessful, one pint of 

 fish, sweet, or linseed oil, melted lard, or syrup of any kind, will 

 be apt to move the substance on its way down. If these should 

 fail, after a good trial, then have the gullet opened right over the 

 substance, and take it out, and put in one, two, or three stitches 

 with strong saddlers' silk. Make the stitches separately from each 

 other ; for if this be not done, and one break, the others will also 

 become loose. 



In high choke, the irritation and excitement are great, which 

 prevent much being done to relieve the animal. Try the oil, and 

 see what can be done in that way. The treatment is- purely 

 mechanical, so use ingenuity to overcome the difficulty. 



Chorea. — This is a rare disease in the horse, but common in 

 dogs. It accompanies cases of madness in all animals, and depends 

 upon nervous excitement, which is seen in the constant twitch- 

 ing of the muscles of the body. It is clearly sympathetic in ita 

 character. 



Treatment. Removal of the cause, whatever that may be. 



Cold. — Symptoms, Cough slight, fever, and discharge more or 



