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and be conducive to canying the animal safely through the 

 fever ; while seeing that the throat is in all probability sore, 

 and swallowing difficult, the most convenient form in which 

 medicines may be given is dissolved in the drinking-water. 

 For this purpose the ordinary fever-powder, consisting of two 

 drachms each of chlorate and nitrate of potash, given twice 

 daily, will answer AveH ; or one drachm of the muriate of 

 ammonia, given in half a pint of water, morning and evening, 

 has been found useful. If the throat is tender and the cough 

 troublesome, a little compound camphor and belladonna elec- 

 tuary, given three or four times daily, may be substituted 

 for the powders, or allowed twice daily in addition to them. 



Both while the nasal membrane is dry, and after the mucous 

 character of the secretion has been established, regular fumi- 

 gation of the nostrils with vapour, generated by pouring hot 

 water upon bran or chaff contained in a nosebag, may with 

 advantage be employed twice daily. 



When the throat-symptoms are troublesome, either from the 

 difficulty of deglutition or the cough, it Avill be advisable, in 

 addition to the exhibition of the electuary, to employ externally 

 either a mustard-poultice or some stimulating liniment, such as 

 a compound of ammonia, oil of turpentine, or of cantharides. 

 Mustard is preferred by many owing to the opportunity Avhich 

 it affords of reapplication by being rubbed off when dry • 

 cantharides I have always believed to be less painful and more 

 efficacious. The temperature of the body must be maintained 

 by appropriate clothing, which ought to be removed daily, 

 well shaken, and replaced after the body has been quietly 

 sponged with water, or water with a little vinegar added. The 

 condition of the bowels may always, where the animal is feed- 

 ing moderately, be maintained in a proper state by means of 

 the dietary. Scalded oats with bran, to which is added a little 

 linseed-oil, will serve this purpose well ; or, if the season and 

 place will afford it, green food is probably preferable to aught 

 else. When the bowels are decidedly confined, and their con- 

 dition may not be corrected by the food, enemata of tepid 

 water or oil are to be preferred to the exhibition of any laxative 

 medicine by the mouth. 



