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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



If tn« secretion should be of an acrid 

 watery de-scription, you will then be justified 

 in trying a course of mercurial medicine, 

 observingr at the same time to be caieful the 

 Horse does not get a chill during the time 

 you are exhibiting the medicine ; and for this 

 purpose I can safely recommend the follow- 

 ing : — 



Take Blue pill - - - . 2 drams. 

 Ginger . . _ - 1 do. 

 Form into h ball, with soft soap. 



Give one of these balls every second day for a 

 fortnight ; if tiie Horse should be off his feed in 

 the course of the exhibition of the medicine, 

 delay the continuance, and commence again in 

 three or four days. This f have known to re- 

 move very severe attacks of chronic cough, uuj 

 frequently, when attended with worms, you 

 will perceive the coat staring and dry, the 

 stock fetid and slimy. In chronic cough 

 great attention should also be given to the 

 food of the animal, never to give clover ; it is 

 heating, and aUogether unfit for Horses so 

 affected. Chaff also is not good in this dis- 

 ease ; good sweet oats and hay, both made a 

 little damp, will be found the best. Carrots, 

 occasionally, are excellent ; Swede turnips, a 

 few ; or even a few potatoes cut up, will 

 afford great relief. Occasionally, bran mashes, 

 with a little scalded linseed, will also be found 

 useful. 



In cases of chronic cough, where it appears 

 of an aggravated nature, insert a rowel in the 

 chest, and dress with the digestive ointment. 

 (See ointments at the end of the work.) Keep 

 the rowel in for at least a fortnight. Should 

 the cough be very severe, apply the following 

 liniment to the whole length of the Horse's 

 wind-pipe, night and morning. 



No. 1. 



Take Oil of turpentine - - 3 ounces. 

 Olive oil - - - - 3 do. 

 Apply as above directed. 



Or, No. 2. 



Cantharides 

 Olive oil 



1 ounce. 

 5 do. 



Let these remain in a bottle for about sit 

 days, occasionally shaking it, when apply as 

 above directed. In cases of coagulable lymph 

 being deposited in the wind-pipe, these lini- 

 ments will greatly tend to move it. 



THICK WIND. 



This is a disease which the Horse is fre- 

 quently attacked with, or more properly be 

 said, to be a sequel of inflamed lungs ; the air- 

 passages, in consequence, of the previous 

 disease, frequently become thickened, and in 

 consequence, the air not passing so freely to 

 and from the lungs, constitute what is called 

 thick w ind. This is a disease that rarely occurs 

 of itself, but supervenes after some other in- 

 flammatory attack that the air-passages may 

 have been subject to, such as catarrh, &c. Long 

 continued and hurried exercise, beyond the 

 capacity of the lungs, is frequently a cause, 

 and such is particularly the case when Horses 

 are driven, or ridden hard on full bellies; and 

 not unfrequently produced when Horses are 

 too fat, or in other words, out of condition, 

 consequently producing inflammation in the 

 air passages. Confinement frequently will pro- 

 duce it, by exciting an inflammatory diatheses, 

 and this more certainly, when over-feeding, 

 with a want of exercise, is added to it. 



The remote causes of thick wind are as 

 stated, to be found in morbid vascular action. 



