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ram to oats and hay as usnal. It" the heat return at 

 intervals, as usually happens towards nightfail, give 

 him a Cooling Decoction cf 



Linseed, 2 quarts, coarse sugar, 3 ounces, 

 Water, boiling hot, 6 quarts, poured on the seed. 



Let it. simmer three or four hours, and pour off the 

 liquor for use when nearly cold. The linseed or flax- 

 seed will bear another water, less in quantity ; but 

 some horses will take the seeds also, which may be 

 permitted. Give the whole in the course of the day, 

 at two or three intervals, and repeat the same decoc- 

 tion once or twice more. 



INFLAiMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



The symptoms of imflamed lungs rapidly succeed 

 each other — shivering, difficulty of breathing, loss of 

 appetite and sluggishness, with drooping of the head, 

 become visible in quick succession. In a few hours, 

 if the animal is in good keeping ; longer, if out of 

 condition, those symptoms increase, with unusually 

 quick action of the flanks, accompanied by hot mouth 

 and hectic cough. Its ears and legs become cold, and 

 lie cares not to lie down, or being down, he rises lan- 

 guidly, as if mourning his fate. Sometimes the pro- 

 gress of this monstrous disease is accelerated by his 

 previous habits, if predisposed to inflammation. 



The cure sometimes is mainly effected by the effu- 

 sion of water in the chest, which frequently takes 

 place upon bleeding the patient ; the practitioner has 

 little more to do than to place himself in the situation 

 of the handmaid of nature, and all will go en well to 

 perfect restoration. We may know when this effu- 

 sion has taken place, by an evident remis.sion of the 

 desponding symptoms ; his flanks cease to heave so 

 much as hitherto, and the animal looks more cheer- 

 fully, he tries to eat a bit, the cough almost ceases, 

 and the warmth of the ears returns, all in a partial 

 degree ; but the roughness of the coat, which always 

 accompanies inflammation, does not so soon return to 

 it« original suppleness, but assumes the first symptoms 

 of hide-bound. Minor helps are only necessary. 



Dat if relief be not given in that manner, the ani- 



