142 MANUAL OF EQUINE MEDICINE. 



by pouring hot water over chopped hay or bran in a nose- 

 bag, and may be medicated by the addition of chloroform 

 or opium, or other drugs. 



In mild cases, inhalations, fomentations to the throat, 

 succeeded by stimulating hniments or blisters, are recom- 

 mended. Febrifuges may be given internally. The diet 

 should be soft and laxative, and the horse should be warmly 

 clad and placed in a well ventilated airy loose box. When 

 deglutition is very difficult it is necessary to give all 

 medicines in the water or food. 



Belladonna is recommended in the early stages and should 

 be administered by placing the extract between the horse's 

 teeth as an electuary. During recovery the diet should 

 be as nutritious as possible, and vegetable and mineral 

 tonics should be administered in order to combat the great 

 prostration usually left in these cases. 



DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI. 



ACUTE CATARRHAL BRONCHITIS.— Definition.— 



Eronchitis is a catarrhal inflammation of the mucous 

 membrane of the bronchial tubes. It may be limited to 

 the trachea and large bronchial tubes (simple bronchitis), 

 or it may extend to their ultimate ramifications (capillary 

 bronchitis). 



Etiology and Nature. — The causes are predisposing and 

 exciting. The predisposing causes are debility, previous 

 attacks of bronchial inflammation, and cardiac diseases of a 

 chronic nature. The exciting causes are exposure to cold 

 and damp, exhaustion, and irritation of the bronchial 

 membrane by noxious vapours, or by the accidental entrance 

 of fluids or solids into the bronchial tubes; epizootic in- 

 fluences in some instances, as observed in certain forms of 

 influenza; and lastly, bronchitis as met with in certain 



