378 EPIZOOTIC AND ENZOOTIC DISEASES. 



If the appetite is very much impaired, the horse must have an 

 abundant allowance of milk to drink instead of water. Some 

 horses are very fond of milk, and almost all will partake of it 

 after tasting it a few times. If the debility is excessive, eggs 

 beaten up with the milk will prove of great service. They 

 supply those constituents which are required by the wasted 

 tissues. If milk is refused, the animal must have gruel, 

 linseed tea, or hay tea, if it will take them spontaneously, but 

 nothing must be forced upon it. 



Of the termination of pleuro-pneumonia in hydrothorax I 

 have only to say that since I have abandoned the heroic and 

 counter-irritating treatment, hydrothorax has been almost un- 

 known to me. Other terminations, such as rheumatism, roaring, 

 thick wind, &c., will be described under their proper heads. 



