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If the sores do not look as if tliey ^\ere going to heal, sprinkle 

 them with burnt aliun before using the ointment. 



After the horse is well, he will require good care and feeding 

 to get him fit for use. Some simple tonic, as golden-seal and 

 poplar-bark, might be giYen once or twice a day, in doses of one 

 or two drams of the golden-seal, and one ounce of the poplar- 

 bark, in the feed. 



TYPHUS FEVER. 



This disease is not YerY often met with amonc; horses. It is 

 a low form of general foYor, but its principal evil effects being 

 expended on the lungs or bowels. 



Symptoms. — The teeth, tongue, and mouth are Yery oifensiYe 

 and coated ; the pulse is quick, soft, and feeble ; the breath is 

 Yery oifensive ; the color of the membrane of the nose is dark. 

 As the disease progresses, the coat on the tongue and teeth be- 

 comes dark, and cracks on the tongue appear, and the gums 

 bleed. There is great thirst, and no appetite. If the hand is 

 passed over the body, small lumps or eruptions may be felt : 

 these are characteristic of the disease. 



When the lungs are principally affected, the breathing will 

 6e very difficult, and the bowels costive ; but when the bowels 

 are the main seat of injury, they will be loose ; the discharge 

 will be dark, slimy, and offensive. jMortification terminates the 

 case, when it proves fatal. 



Treatment. — I should give water, made sour with cider, cream 

 of tartar, or vinegar, as a drink. In the early stage, give fifty 

 grains of podophyllin. Then : 



Take — Tincture of prickly-ash berries 4 ounces. 



Tincture of wild indigo 4 ounces. 



Tincture of capsicum 2 ounces. 



Mix, and give two table-spoonfuls every four hours, in a pint of water, as 

 a drench. 



This disease is infectious, and, probably, contagious. 



