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clean hay, bran, scalded shorts, or cut feed ; but by no means 

 should he be allowed to gorge himself. 



I have said nothing about the bowels in treating this disease. 

 It must not be supposed that, because human doctors often give 

 their lung-fever patients physic, the same may be done with the 

 horse laboring under this disease. If the horse's bowels are 

 costive, and it is thought necessary to move them, an injection 

 is all that it would be safe to use. A gallon or two of warm 

 .soapsuds, and a couple of handfuls of salt dissolved in it, 

 may be used as an injection, or the same quantity of corn-meal 

 gruel may be used for that purpose. An active physic would 

 be equal to a sentence of death. 



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This is an inflammation of the pleura, or thin, glisteny mem- 

 brane which lines the inside of the chest and covers the lungs. 

 It is a very active disease, and wall very soon destroy the horse, 

 if not promptly treated. The symptoms of this disease and 

 lung fever are very nearly the same. Indeed, the two diseases 

 may both affect the horse at once, commencing at the same 

 time ; or one commencing and then the other coming on after- 

 ward. Such a case is called pleuro-jmeumonia. 



Symiotoms. — Having just described lung fever, it will only be 

 necessary to point out those symptoms in which pleurisy differs 

 from it. The pulse furnishes the most marked difference. As 

 the blood in this disease is not obstructed in its passage through 

 the lungs, as it is in lung fever, w^e have not the small, op- 

 pressed pulse of that disease, but a hard, full pulse, surely 

 indicating inflammation. The feet and legs are cold, but not 

 so cold as in lung fever. The membrane of the nose is some- 

 wdiat red, but not so intensely red as when the lungs are the 

 seat of the inflammation. If the side of the patient is pressed 

 on over the seat of the disease in pleurisy, pnin will be felt, as 

 indicated by the peculiar grunt the horse will give. The man- 

 ner of standing, and the obstinacy with which the horse keeps on 



