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and in others mingled with blood. The discharge is some- 

 times continuous, and at others it is only occasionally sneezed 

 out. In the latter case it is generally thick, and when so, 

 the disease is on the wane. If, however, it is of long dura- 

 tion, it sometimes assumes a serous aspect, and may ulti- 

 mately prove fatal to the horse. 



Cure. — Give the following medicine twice a day : — 

 Sulphate of copper, or blue vitriol . 1 drachm, 

 made into a ball with treacle and flour. 



Should this disease be attended with cough and fever, 

 then the following draught must be prepared : — 

 Lintseed .... 1 pint. 

 Treacle .... 8 ounces, 

 Vinegar .... 1 pint. 

 The lintseed must be soaked or decocted in hot water for 

 three or four hours, kept close to the fire, or on the hob of 

 a grate. Let it be poured off, and the quantity of this tea 

 which remains must be six pints. Then add the other 

 ingredients. 



Give the horse half-a-pint from four to six times during 

 the twenty-four hours. The above tonic, consisting of sul- 

 phate of copper, should be continued along with the cough 

 mixture. Should pus be found mixed with the nasal dis- 

 charge, and the smell be disagreeable, then the following 

 tonic medicine must be given : — 



Sulphate of copper . . 1 drachm. 



Gentian ... .2 drachms, 



Ginger .... 2 drachms, 



Treacle . . . ^ ounce; 



to be administered in a single dose, and repeated daily while 



the above symptoms continue. But if not removed in a 



few days, there is reason to expect that it will terminate 



in glanders. 



