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into the blood is another powerful ferment, and ends either 

 in farcy, glanders, or some other zymotic disease. 



Treatment. Having fully and sufficiently explained the 

 cause of this disease, the treatment is almost already pointed 

 out, namely, remove the cause, and the effects will cease. 

 For this purpose give the following substance twice a day, 

 a tablespoonful to a dose : Sulphite (not sulphate) of soda. 

 This new chemical salt will purify the blood, as its action 

 destroys fermentation, whether in a barrel of wine, cider, 

 or in the blood of a horse. Continuing this till the horse 

 is well, and for a few weeks afterwards, two or three times 

 a week, will be of good service. (See Sulphite of Soda.) 

 While the blood is thus being purified and' made fit once 

 more for the purposes of life, it will be necessary to add 

 something to it also, thus assisting the powers of the con- 

 stitution to overcome the difficulty. We will not only add 

 to the blood, but give something to facilitate the removal 

 of the effete matter from the body, without weakening the 

 animal with debilitating diuretics. For this purpose, the 

 following medicine w411 be given : Powdered sulphate of 

 copper, three ounces ; powdered Spanish fly, one drachm ; 

 powdered gentian root, four ounces. Mix, and divide into 

 twelve powders, and give one powder at night in some 

 good feed, v/ith no more cold water in it than will keep the 

 particles of the feed together. These powders will do for 

 two weeks ; at the end of that time get more, and conthiuc 

 them till the horse is well. In addition to Avhat has been 

 recommended, give grass, and good and generous feed, for 

 by these means the j^ower and strength of the body will 

 be kept up, and a cure will be more surely and speedily 

 effected. 



While this treatment is going on, the horse will have to 

 be removed to a plate by himself, or from heaithy animals. 



