110 DISEASES OF THE HEAD 



Sore Eyes should be treated mildly by stuping with 

 tepid water, and the use of laxatives, as mashes, green 

 food, or a mild purge, according to the severity of the 

 case. Keep in darkness. If the affection is acute, con- 

 sult a professional veterinary surgeon. 



Common Cold and Influenza. — It should be remem- 

 bered that cold air seldom gives cold, but rather its 

 action upon the exhalent vessels of the skin when they 

 are under the process of sweat, and when the exercise 

 that produced the latter has ceased. The superficial 

 action of a low temperature then proyes an astringent, 

 clogging the small exhalent and exuding vessels, and 

 by the derangement of the whole animal system, imme- 

 diately affects the respiratory organs, producing more or 

 less fever. 



When disease is thus contracted, it is self-evident 

 that the best way to meet it is by forcing these small 

 vessels into exudation (or sweat) as rapidly as pos- 

 sible, which may readily be done by exercise and 

 clothing upon the very first suspicion that a chill has 

 been taken, and before the animal is positively affect- 

 ed. Once, however, that the debility or feverish 

 symptoms incidental to the disease are manifesting 

 themselves, active but entirely different measures must 

 be resorted to. 



The premonitory symptoms of cold, and that scourge 

 of the stud, influenza, are, refusal of corn, staring coat, 

 dull eyes, at first a thin and soon a purulent discharge 

 from one or both nostrils, with more or less cough ; 

 pulse wired, sometimes very weak, but if highly in- 

 flammatory symptoms be present, thin and rapid. 



Under these circumstances, if a professional veteri- 

 nary surgeon is procurable, the case should be referred 



