THE MALIGNANT EriDElIIC. 79 



Digitalis . . • i draclim, 

 Nitre ... 1 drachm, 



Emetic tartar . . -^ drachm ; 

 to be made up in the form of a ball, with tar. If this fails 

 to lessen the irritation, a blister should be applied to the 

 throat, extending from one ear to the other, and reaching 

 six or eight inches down the windpipe, which will have the 

 effect of lessening the irritation of the fauces or the larynx, 

 if the inflammation exists in that situation. Sometimes 

 a blister extending to the lower part of the windpipe, as 

 far as the chest, has had a good effect. 



The food should be of an opening nature, as dry feeding, 

 such as straw and chaff, is always found to increase the 

 complaint : grass and other green food ^\;ill have a salutary 

 effect in this and other similar diseases. 



Horses may have chronic cough without their general 

 health being affected by it ; and should the above remedies 

 prove ineffectual in removing it in a few weeks, there will 

 be no use in persisting in attempts at a cure ; and it is only 

 when the complaint assumes a more than ordinary degree 

 of coughing, that medical treatment should be resorted to. 

 A great object is to avoid exposing the animal to sudden 

 transitions from heat to cold ; as a horse afflicted with 

 chronic cough is more liable than others to be affected by 

 changes of temperature. 



THE MALIGNANT EPIDEMIC. 



Symptoms. — This complaint is marked by a complication 

 of disagreeable symptoms ; there is a fetid discharge from 

 the nostrils, with an extremely stinking breath, and the 

 whole evacuations become disgustingly offensive, accom- 

 panied by a quick, small, and weak pulse, which is hardly 

 sensible to the touch ; the animal refuses to eat, and a 



