32 TREATMENT OF DISEASES 



was beginning to show symptoms of debility, I therefore admin- 

 istered 



Golden Seal ,1 ounce. 



Ginger 1 drachm. 



Glycerine 1 " 



The disease was now bordering on the chronic state, and in con- 

 sideration of this fact, the treatment required was tonics and those 

 medicines in whose properties there are agents which will co-operate 

 yfiih nature in sustaining vitality and life. I left a dose of the fol- 

 lowing, to be given in four hours after the first dose which I had 

 administered : 



Golden Seal 1 ounce. 



Iodide of Potass 15 grains. 



Blood-root 1 drachm. 



Fourth Day. This morning I considered my patient a far differ- 

 ent horse from what he was when I first commenced with him. He 

 began to show symptoms of activity ; held his head more erect ; his 

 eyes appeared brighter and his legs were warmer, and his whole 

 appearance had undergone a great change, and in a very short space 

 of time. I gave him a tonic, namely : 



Tr. Golden Seal 1 ounce. 



and informed the owner that I would call in the morning. 



Fifth Day. After examining my patient, I ordered the bandages 

 to be taken from his limbs, and had him walked around in the open 

 air. The owner then mentioned to me that he thought he needed no 

 further treatment. This suggestion I complied with, and discharged 

 the case. 



This is only one of the many cases which go to show how medi- 

 cines of a sanative character will act upon disease, and how few 

 take into consideration what harm they are doing and the small 

 amount of benefit the animal derives, when these individuals are 

 pouring an apothecary's shop down an animal. 



In the above disease of Pneumonia, care must be taken as soon 

 the animal shows any symptoms of complaint, to place him in a dry 

 clean stall, in which place he has the benefits derived from an un- 

 adulterated atmosphere. Whatever feed is placed before him should 

 be of a sloppy character, such as bran mashes, &c. And bear in 

 mind there are but two conditions, namely — acute and clu'onic, and 

 they are to be treated accordingly. 



GUTTA SERENA — {Dilatation of the Pupil.) 



Gutta Serena, sometimes called "amaurosis," consists of paraly- 

 sis of the optic nerve; the diagnostic symptom, or 7x:ey note of the 

 disease, is dilatation and fixedness of the pupil of the eye, and if a 

 lighted candle be held to the same, it does not contract like the pupil 

 of an eye unaffected. 



The symptoms of this kind of blindness, independent of the above, 

 are active muscular motions of the ears, and lifting the fore feet 

 higher than usual from the ground. 



