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Treatment. AYartn-water cloths should be laid over the 

 parts for a few days, followed in the same manner by 

 cold-water cloths. Give rest and good feed, and use the 

 horse in the shafts of a light four-wlieeled carriage, or in 

 double harness. Saddle work may be the means of its 

 return, more especially if ridden by a heavy person. 



Loss of Appetite. — This is more of a symptom than, 

 a disease, and requires for its removal the cause which 

 gave rise to it. In cold, influenza and fever, the appe- 

 tite is bad, and with their removal it will be restored. 

 Take powdered carbonate of ammonia, pimenta berries, 

 gentian root, each two drachms, mix in some cold gruel, 

 and drench the animal twice a day. This will not only 

 remove, in a measure, the cause, but will restore the appe- 

 tite also. 



Lumbago. — This is applied to a peculiar stiffness over 

 the loins or back, partaking of the nature of rheumatism, 

 (which see.) 



Lungs. — These are the organs of breathing, and are 

 subject to many diseases, having names familiar to every 

 horseman. Under this head, however, I will only notice 

 inflammation of the substance of the lungs, pneumoniay 

 (lung fever,) and of the surface of the lung, pleurisi/y 

 abscesSj adhesion^ and congestion. (See Cough, Cold, 

 Bronchitis and Emphysema.) 



(1.) Pneumonia. — [Pronounced numonia.) — This is an 

 inflammation of the substance of the lungs, of late years 

 called lung fever, and is sometimes very common in the 

 spring after a severe winter. 



Symptoms. Chill followed by fever and increased for a 

 short time, and is succeeded by cold legs and ears, 

 quickened breathing, and wide, open nostrils. A peculiar 



