210 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



is camomile in doses of from one to two drachms ; after a 

 day or two following may be given : — Camomile two 

 drachms, ginger two drachms, and gentian two grains. 

 Should the animal continue to improve, the diet may be 

 extended, and probably in three or four days it may have 

 a small quantity of corn, which may be increased until 

 its strength is restored. A clean, cool stable is the best 

 means of preventing predisposition to diseases of the 

 lungs, both of which should be scrupulously attended to. 

 The heated air of a stable and the poisonous gas arising 

 from dung and urine prove most injurious to the horse. 

 Bad ventilation and bad drains have much to answer for. 



LOCAL INFLAMMATION. 



The symptoms of local inflammation are redness of 

 the parts, heat, pains, and swelling. The redness is 

 induced by the increased flow of blood through the 

 vessels of the parts affected, in consequence of the 

 increased action of the blood-vessels. The heat arises 

 from the change gradually taking place in the flow of 

 the blood passing from the arterial to the venous con- 

 dition, so that if more blood be propelled through the 

 capillaries, more heat will consequently be produced in 

 that situation. Swelling is induced by the same means 

 as the redness, viz., from a fluid being deposited in the 

 contiguous substance, and pain must be the effect of dis- 

 tension and pressure produced, and the consequent dis- 

 arrangement of the nerves of the parts affected. Inflam- 

 mation of every kind is caused by an increased flow of 

 blood through the vessels of the part affected ; conse- 

 quently the remedies must be to reduce the circulation 



