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health look to his chest : other parts will commonly announce 

 their ailments plainly enough. 



Preventive treatment consists in not only avoiding 

 every bodily exertion, as well as any mode of living that may, 

 by any possibility, be likely to give rise to inflammation in 

 a chest ill-adapted to bear it, but in removing the animal 

 from any situation in which he appears unhealthy into one 

 of another description. During spring and summer, a run 

 at grass often proves of the greatest benefit in giving a 

 healthy turn to an ill-conditioned consumptive-looking colt: 

 in cold and wet weather, on the contrary, the removal of 

 such a colt into a loose shed or box, and there keeping him 

 regularly, but moderately, fed and exercised, and well sup- 

 plied with water, clothing, and cool air, would be most 

 advisable. As to 



Medical treatment, I know none that is or can be of 

 service save what tends to check or subdue inflammation in 

 the chest; nor can we expect much good from that but in 

 such cases as are in their formative or incipient stages. We 

 must narrowly watch the progress of catarrh and cough and 

 strangles and bronchial affections in subjects such as I have 

 described ; and where there appears the slightest reason to 

 believe that inflammation, in however mild or latent a form, 

 has entered the chest, we must without hesitation attack it 

 by medicine, and by counter-irritation. Set the bowels in 

 order by enemata, or some very mild aperient medicine, and 

 then commence giving the Plummer's balls twice or thrice 

 a- day, and continue so as to slightly affect the mouth; or, 

 short of this, to produce amendment enough for return, if 

 possible, to condition and work. 



Insert a rowel in the breast ; and if more be thought 

 necessary, blister that and the sides also. As soon as the 

 animal appears convalescent — but not before we are quite 

 assured that inflammatory action has subsided in his chest — 

 should the season permit, give him a run at grass : if not, 

 soil him in the stable. Indeed, that may beneficially be 

 done while we arc treating his disease, by giving green-meat 

 when it can be got ; otherwise, carrots, turnips, potatoes, &c. 



