80 THE NEW POCKET FARRIER. 



be felt. The pulse is dull and uneven. If the disease 

 owes its origin to dropsy, each pressure of the finger 

 will remain pitted a few moments after the finger is 

 withdrawn. 



To repress the swelling, bleed copiously; give purga- 

 tives and clyster him; give bran mashes, and let the 

 chill be taken oflT his water. Foment the throat and 

 breast with bran mash or marshmallows, every four or 

 five hours; and when these have reduced the symptoms, 

 give an alterative ball of 2 drachms tartar emetic, and 

 half an ounce Venice turpentine, mixed with liquorice 

 powder enough to make the ball for one dose. Give 

 one every eight-and-forty hours. 



If the swelling depend upon dropsy, let a fleam or 

 horse-lancet be struck into the skin at four or five places 

 distant from each other, and in the lowest part of the 

 swelling. From these punctures a watery discharge 

 will take place, that relieves the patient hourly, and the 

 issue of the matter is to be promoted by keeping open 

 the sores with a seton, the tape being daily saturated in 

 a mixture of 2 oz. spirits of wine, and 1 scruple corro- 

 sive sublimate. This will keep open the orifice until the 

 offensive matter has run oif, and is succeeded by the more 

 healthy issue of thicker consistency and nearly white. 

 On this appearance the seton is to be withdrawn, and 

 the parts dressed with digestive ointment, the animal 

 physicked once or twice with a moderate purging hall 

 or six or seven drachms of aloes, and the cure will com- 

 plete itself with the ordinary dressings. 



THE STRANGLES. 



. This, as the name imports, is first indicated by a 

 coughing and difficulty of swallowing, as if the animal 

 would die of strangulation. It is a disorder of youth, 



