79 SORE THROAT— RE&IEDIES. 



by the dealers; — an i/-jury that thus produces latent ejfTects, chough the pain 

 were originally little, and that little long ago departed. 



We h'ear this kind of first attack termed " a cold in the head," the second 

 symptom is "a cough," and feel no disposition to quarrel with either term. 



In proportion as the attack may be more severe, the symptoms increase, as 

 does the danger. Passing the hand down over the windpipe, at the epiglottis, 

 *he animal will shrink if it be sore within, and he will soon evince difficulty 

 of swallowing, and refuse his food: inflammation has begun. When these 

 are not preceded by a discharge from the nose, this symptom does not appear 

 until the inflammation is lowered by bleeding and other remedies: the dis- 

 charge is then an indication that the inflammation, or heat, has subsided and 

 no longer demands the adjacent secretions. See page 33, for a more minute 

 description how this demand takes place. 



With those symptoms of sore throat others become apparent, and the whole 

 assume a malignant tendency proportioned to the severity of the attack and 

 previous state of the suffering animal. As happens in all other inflammatory 

 complaints, the pulse tells of the existence of fever, in its degree : accompanied 

 by languid eyes, breathing quick and laboriously, and general heat of the skin 

 without perspiration. In some cases the sore throat is substituted, in some 

 measure, by enlargement of the glands underneath the jowl, which are also 

 attended by soreness more or less ; and as this species of attack is occasioned 

 by the humidity of a cold spring or wet autumn acting upon moulting horses^ 

 great numbers feel its influence at once, and gives reason for veterinary writers 

 to consider this general distemper as "the influenza," and an "epidemic." 

 Enough has already been said under the latter head of information, therefore 

 let us proceed to treat of the thing as it regards the individual patient. 



Remedy. — When the glands swell, as just mentioned, and there is no reason 

 to doubt, according to the corresponding symptoms, that it is the effect of a 

 cold — which may further be ascertained by their heat and tension, let some 

 discutient application be used — as camphorated spirits of wine : but if the in- 

 flammation be to a great degree, bran poultice may be applied to advantage. 

 If those enlarged glands already contain matter the tendency to irritation vyill 

 thus be reduced ; if merely sordid tumours, either application will effect relie^^ 

 by reducing the size and tenderness of the part, so as the animal may take his 

 medicines with less difficulty. Steaming the head for an hour, or applying 

 hot flannels that have been steeped in boUing water, will be fouitd serviceable, 

 taking care to dry-rub the coat immediately after, which also assists to reduce 

 the swelling. If this symptom does not give way before those applications, 

 and the throat is ascertained to be sore, blistering may be resorted to, taking 

 care to extend it over the whole of the parts affected. See page 76. 



As in all other inflammatory diseases, bleeding to an amount proportioned 

 to the violence of the attack, with purgatives and clysters, should accompany 

 the foregoing external applications : and these, with plenty of bran mashes, 

 sodden oats, and the fever powders prescribed at page 65, will reduce the 

 symptoms. Similarly to those also will be the precariousness of his complete 

 recovery, and so should be the care that the relapse, to which he is for a time 

 daily liable, should not reach to a great height. 1 need not repeat the general 

 precautions which are set down at page 70. 



Unwilling to leave the reader in a dilemma as to the mode of applying the 

 bran poultice just recommended and upon the efficacy whereof I mainly rely, 

 [ have taken the pains to sketch a bandage proper for that purpose, with its 

 fewtenmgs, the ingenious contrivance of some Frenchman, whose naaie I L-o- 

 !.*▼€! to have been Bourgelat. 



