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Take — Tincture of prickly-ash berries 4 ounces. 



Tincture of wild indigo 4 ounces. 



Tincture of capsicum 2 ounces. 



Mix and e;ive two table-spoonfuls every six hours, in a pint of warm water, 

 as a drench. 



Injections should be given to aid the physic in operating. 



The horse shoukl be helped up occasionally, if he can not get 



up himself. The throat may be gargled or washed out with a 



tea made of capsicum, water, and vinegar, every two or three 



hours. Bathe the throat and chest with capsicum liniment 



three times a day. Scalded shorts, gruel, etc., may be given as 



his diet. 



CATAKKHAL FEVER— INFLUENZA. 



A perfect Babel of confusion prevails among authors with 

 regard to this disease. It has been called by the various 

 names of pink-eye, horse-ail, distemper, influenza, epidemic ca- 

 tarrh, etc. It has been treated quite as variously as named. 

 It is very apt to occur among many horses in the same neigh- 

 borhood at the same time, and frequently appears to spread 

 as if it was contagious. Horses taken from the country to the 

 city are almost certain to undergo an attack of this disease. 

 It occurs most frequently in the spring and late in the fall. 



Symptoms. — The first symptom of catarrhal fever is a chilly 

 fit or paroxysm ; but it is very seldom this symptom will be 

 observed. The horse will be found languid, or lazy, and will 

 hardly move at all. He seems very weak; is oif his feed; 

 the breathing is difficult, the air evidently passing up the 

 nostrils with difficulty. The eyes are red and bleary; the 

 patient swallows with great difficulty, even water; the feet and 

 legs are cold in the earlier stages of the disease ; the pulse is 

 increased in frequency; the dung and urine are passed in 

 small quantities. The patient becomes haggard and worn 

 down very rapidly from the first. Very early in the disease, 

 a watery swelling of the legs takes x^lace. This is particularly 

 the case in large cities. This swelling may extend to the 



