42 THE DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



tatis, Epsom salt, and niter for fever. Mash diet, with 

 a little green food, till fever abates ; then digestible, con- 

 centrated, nutritive food. 



Catarrhal symptoms treated by steaming head, medica- 

 ted inhalations, or sprays. (See ' Catarrh.') Flannels 

 wrung out of hot water and mustard, or other embroca- 

 tions, to the throat relieve congestion of the upper air 

 passages. Embrocations are fluid remedies for in-rubbing. 



Swelling symptoms, treated with salines and antiseptics, 

 require early use of such stimulants as alcohol, ether, oil 

 of turpentine, or ferric chloride solution. 



Pneumonic cases : Liquor ammoniae ,acetatis, potassium 

 nitrate or chlorate, and camphor. Fomentations to chest ; 

 mustard applied, but washed off in 15 or 20 minutes; 

 reapplied if necessary, or injection of Savary's mustard 

 extract. With salines give alcohol and ether, early, but 

 in moderate doses, every three hours. 



Gastro-intestinal complications treated in earlier stages 

 by a few doses of gray powder or calomel, conjoined with 

 laxatives; in later stages by nitro-hydrochloric acid. Ab- 

 dominal pain relieved by chloral and cannabis indica in- 

 ternally, or by morphine hypodermically. 



Rheumatic symptoms : Salicylic acid, oil turpentine, 

 diuretic doses of digitalis and salines, with stimulation of 

 affected muscles and joints. Patients, if reduced, require 

 milk, eggs, beef tea, and frequent alcoholic stimulants. 

 (For doses, see pages 13 to 29.) 



STRANGLES (PUS FEVER, COLT ILL), 



Is a common and well denned disease, but veterinarians 

 are not agreed as to its exact cause or nature. It is at- 

 tributed by some to a strepto-coccus, which settle on and 

 irritate the nasal membrane. It is peculiar to but not lim- 

 ited to young horses, and seldom occurs but once. The 

 fever (Percivall calls it i strangles fever ') is nearly always 

 followed by an abscess or abscesses in the space between 



