THE COMPLETE FARRIER, 



OR, 



HORSE DOCTOR. 

 Remedy for a Cold. 



People not much accustomed to study the diseases of 

 horses, look upon a cold as a triyial matter. But they 

 should bear in mind that nearly the whole of the disorders 

 to which this noble animal is liable, derive their origin from 

 a Cold. The causes of Colds are various, but the most usual 

 one is riding the horse until he is hot, and then suffering 

 him to stand still exposed to the cold air ; removing him 

 from a hot stable to a cold one ; if the horse has been high- 

 fed, and clothed, the cold contractc^d in this manner often 

 proves very violent ; and this is the reason why horses often 

 catch a severe cold on their first coming out of the dealer's 

 hands : neglecting to rub him properly down, and to rub the 

 sweat carefully off when he comes in from a journey ; and 

 I have known grievous disorders brought on by removing 

 horses into a new stable before the walls and plastering 

 were dry. Workmen are often in fault for not leaving air- 

 holes above ; as when a horse comes into a new stable, and 

 gathers heat, it will cause the walls and plastering to sweat 

 very much, especially if there are no air-holes left. Many a 

 horse has lost his eyes, and some their lives, by being put 

 into new stables before they were dry. 



Symptoms. — '^Mien a horse has caught a cold, a cough will 

 follow, and he will be heavy and dull in proportion to the 

 severity of the disease : his eyes will be watery ; the ker- 

 nels about his ears, and under his jaws, will swell, and a 

 thin, mucous gleet will run from his nose. If the cold be 

 violent, the horse will be feverish ; his flanks will heave, and 

 he will refuse his food. The owners should be very careful 

 to observe these last symptoms, because when they appear, 

 and are attended with a slimy mouth, cold ears and feet, 

 moist eyes, and a great inward soreness, there is danger of a 

 fever, and generally of a malignant kind. But when the 

 horse coughs strongly, and snorts after it, eats scalded bran, 

 and drinks warm water, moves briskly in his stall, dungs and 



