iseases of the Horse— Causes and Reme- 

 dies.— No. 22. 



DISTEMPER. 



This disease, in many respects, resembles- 

 trangles, or coil's distemper, yet it is a T ast- 

 y different disease. It is one of more seri- 

 -us consequences really than strangles, as it 

 • more apt to attack animals which never 

 ally get over colt's distemper. The chief 

 fstinctlve difference in taking the true diag- 

 nosis is, there is never the inflammatory dis- 

 organization which always accompanies* 

 ^Strangles to a more or less degree ; second, 

 Worses of all ages are liable to its atack, at 

 ny season of the year, especially in the sum- 

 mer time, during moist, muggy weather. 

 ' The horse, like his companion in strangles, 

 is mopish; likes to be by himself; is disin- 

 clined to eat ; drinks only a little at a time, 

 out often, lie is cold about the muzzle and 

 throat ; hot between the eyes (for there is lo- 

 cated this pestiferous malady) ; ears cold and 

 partially pendulous; eyes sunken, languid 

 and watery ; runs from one or both nostrils, 

 sometimes alternating left for the right. 

 The matter is not thick, like that from stran- 

 gles, but greasy, inclining to a greenish tint. 

 These constitute the guiding s3miptoms in 

 discriminating between the two diseases. If 

 not attended to properly and speedily, it 

 very soon assumes a chronic form, in the 

 shape of ozena or nasal gleet, or that worst 

 of all diseases— glanders. 



Many horses, from the effects of this dis- 

 temper, from being neglected and badly cared , 

 for, are attacked with phthisis pulmonalis ' 

 (wasting of the frame) and dwindle down to 

 mere skeletons and of course are quite worth- 

 less to any one, and should be destroyed. 

 The inhuman practice cf turning such and 

 similar useless animals out to die, as many 

 pers^is do, is very wicked, very wrong, and 

 such persons should be punished tor such a 

 crime. I have known several professed 

 Christians, here in my own city, guilty of 

 this barbarous, disgraceful act. 



Treatment. — Keep clean and warm ; feed 

 generously whatever the horse will eat ; give 

 daily two drachms of sulphate of copper pul- 

 verized, and two drachms of the very best 

 ground ginger; mix with honey or sirup 

 into a ball, and give upon an empty stom- 

 ach ; do this for four mornings; then omit 

 two mornings, and give one drachm for three 

 mornings, mixed as before. Now procure 



caraway secus one ywuuu, ucav s iu s ci xiaiL «• 

 pound, make an infusion,— don't boil— with 

 three quarts water ; give in seven or eight 

 doses, one each morning, and usually thr 

 ipatient by this treatment, will fast recover 

 his true and general health. 



I know of no beiter, safer, or cheaper 

 treatment, or one more easy to manage. As 

 Ian adjunct, rub the throat and between the 

 laws, with aqua ammonia two parts, rain 

 water four parts, oil of organum two parts. 

 This is a good, stimulating and very useful 

 liniment. Veterinarian. 



