32 LIST OF SPECIFICS AND REMEDIES. 



SYMPTOMS. The midriff contracts with so 

 much force that the wlule body is shaken, and 

 a " thumping " noise is heard at some distance ; 

 these thumps are best heard when the ear is 

 placed over the back at each side of the spine ; 

 the pulse is small, from fifty to sixty to the min- 

 ute, and the breathing from twenty to thirty ; 

 the breath is drawn quickly into the lungs, and is 

 attended with a snifling sound at the nose ; the 

 sides of the nose are drawn inward, when the 

 breath is inhaled. 



It differs from palpitation by the number of 

 beats being different from that of the iieart, by 

 the sounds being heard over the back and the 

 drawing in of the nostrils during inspiration. 



TREATMENT. The disease will be cured by the 

 Specific for Fever, No. 1, or by the Fever and 

 Caiiy/i, No. 5, alternately, five drops every two or 

 three hours. 



HEAVES, BROKEN WIND, THICK WIND, 

 WHISTLES. 



These are merely varieties of nearly one and 

 the same pathological condition, and the dis- 

 tinctions lead to no practical result in the treat- 

 ment. 



THICK WIND is generally the result of an im- 

 perfectly cured bronchitis or pneumonia, leaving 

 either the mucous membrane of the bronchia 

 permanently thickened, or some portions of the 

 lung more or less solidified, thus impairing its ca- 

 pacity and diminishing or destroying its elasticity. 

 Hence, the horse when exercised, especially up- 



