18 CURINE— The Great 



F., or higher, (when in health the temperature of 

 the horse should be about 100° F.) and the pulse 

 may be beating eighty to one hundred or more times 

 to the minute ^the pulse of a horse in health beats 

 about forty times to the minute), and the beating 

 may be harsh or feeble. There is usually a dry 

 cough from the beginning and a discharge from 

 the nostrils. His legs are cold, bowels constipated 

 and when dung is passed it is usually covered with 

 a slimy mucus. When a horse is affected with 

 pneumonia he does not lie down unless pneumonia 

 is complicated with pleurisy, in which he will lie 

 down for a few moments at a time. When a fatal 

 termination is approaching all symptoms become 

 intensified; he stares around as if imploring aid, 

 the body becomes wet with sweat, he staggers, but 

 recovers his balance. He may now lie down for 

 the first time and may get up and stagger, and 

 sway from side to side, backward and forward, 

 and he falls to rise no more. 



TREATMENT.— Place the animal in a stable 

 comfortably warm, but do not prevent the access 

 of pure air; make him comfortable with warm 

 clothing; give him all the cold water he will drink 

 from the start; blanket the body, rub the legs un- 

 til warm and then bandage. If warmth cannot be 

 established by rubbing, apply a liniment composed 

 of four ounces olive oil, two ounces each of solu- 

 tion of ammonia and tincture cantharides. 



Remove bandages one or more times each day; 

 rub well and re-apply bandages; rub the affected 

 side well with the liniment every three or four 

 days. Give the following drench every six hours: 

 Spirits of nitrous ether, one ounce; solution of 

 acetate of ammonia, two ounces; bicarbonate of 

 potassium, three drams; water, one pint. Never 

 drench through the nostrils. Give a capsule of one 

 dram of quinine every three or four hours when 

 fever is at its highest. If animal is much debili- 

 tated, give six to eight ounces of vs^^iskey in half- 

 pint of water every four or five hours. Never give 

 a purgative in case of lung fever; if constipation 

 exists, overcome it by laxative diets, such as lin- 



