76 THE DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Remedy. — Comfortable housing and clothing, pure air., 

 careful feeding, oleaginous diet. 



Catarrhal : Steam head ; ammonium acetate solution, 

 salines, ether, mustard to throat. 



Bronchial : Ammonium acetate, ipecac, squill, nitrous 

 ether, counter-irritants. 



Dry, with scanty secretion : Ammonium acetate or chlo- 

 ride, potassium bicarbouate and chlorate, borax. 



With profuse discharges : Balsams, eucalyptus oil, tar, 

 terrebene, creosote, astringent sprays or inhalations. 



Irritable : Demulcents ; camphor and belladonna, coni- 

 um, opium, hydrocyanic acid, cocaine. (For a list of 

 demulcents, see page 33.) 



Reflex : Bromides, chloral hydrate. Remove cause of 

 irritation. 



Chronic : Careful dieting ; wet the food ; linseed mash 

 or oil. If the coat is long, clip or singe. Epsom salt or 

 other salines occasionally. Dick's recipe — 30 grains each 

 of calomel, digitalis, opium and camphor. Omit calomel 

 if given daily for a week, that is, if necessary. Belladonna, 

 camphor, alcohol, tar, creosote, arsenic. Counter-irritants 

 — mustard, mercuric iodide ointment, setons. 



For doses, see pages 13 to 29. 



BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE (EPISTAXIS), 



Is best distinguished perhaps from bleeding of the lungs 

 by the fact that blood usually issues from but one nos- 

 tril. Blood may flow in a stream or drop by drop. In 

 either case it is very apt to collect within the chambers 

 of the nose and about the nostril and cause irritation. 

 The horse will snort and blow out clots of blood, and 

 thus increase the bleeding. The blood is mostly arterial 

 — usually a bright scarlet. 



The cause may be constitutional, local, spontaneous — 

 the result of plethora or congestion — or traumatic (wounds). 



