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made slightly sour with cream of tartar, is a good drink while 

 there is fever. The free use of salt will be beneficial in this 

 case. If the bowels become costive, give about thirty grains 

 of podophyllin in a pint of water. If there is much fever, and 

 the case seems to be becoming bad, some medicine may be re- 

 quired more than above. 



Take — Tincture of belladonna 1 ounce. 



Tincture of wild indigo 4 ounces. 



Mix, and give one table-spoonful in water, as a drench, every eight hours. 



The dose may be increased about one-fourth part the second 

 day. 



When getting well, the horse needs good feeding. 



MALIGNANT SCARLET FEVER. 



This is only the severe form of the disease. The case may 

 be so marked from the first that it can not be doubted that it 

 IS going to be the malignant form of the disease. A case, mild 

 at first, may run into the malignant form. 



Symptoms. — The usual symptoms of cold, after a few days, 

 are follow^ed by obstinate soreness of the throat, weakness, 

 fever, a mattery discharge from the nose, and loss of appetite. 

 Hot, hard, and painful swelling of the limbs takes place, and 

 the same blotched or spotted appearance of the hair described 

 in the other form of the disease. Large-sized spots, of a deep 

 scarlet color, appear in the nostrils, and a discharge of bloody 

 water runs from them. The soreness of the throat, the diffi- 

 culty in swallow^ing, and the cough become w^orse. The 

 breathing is much oppressed, and the pulse may reach ninety 

 or one hundred per minute. The swollen limbs become very 

 tender, and the horse will stand in a fixed position for hours, 

 and will hardly move. The disease progresses, and after 

 awhile blisters appear on the limbs, and about the joints par- 

 ticularly. After awhile these blisters burst and discharge an 

 amber-colored fluid, which irritates the parts it runs over, 



