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it continues gleet, it is not glanders, I am fully persuaded ; 

 and to show that it is not, I have been in more than one in- 

 stance successful in bringing the case to a favorable issue." 

 [Percival's Hippopathology.] 



The treatment recommended by veterinary writers has not 

 been found successful in the author's practice ; nor, indeed, do 

 they themselves appear to have encountered any better for- 

 tune. That which has proved efiBcacious has, in all cases, been 

 strictly tonic. Give the following powder night and morning 

 for a month : of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), half a 

 drachm ; pulverized gentian root, two drachms ; pulverized 

 ginger, one drachm ; mix for one dose : or, give night and 

 morning, mixed in the feed, half-drachm doses of powdered nux 

 vomica (commonly called Quaker button). There is no 

 danger in giving this preparation to a horse, provided he does 

 not have water for some time afterward, say half an hour ,' and 

 it very rarely fails. 



PNEUMONIA. 



By pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, is meant either 

 a highly congested or an inflammatory condition of the lungs, 

 arising from various causes, as high feeding, blanketing, close 

 or badly ventilated stables, violent or extraordinary exercise, 

 or sudden changes from heat to cold. Cold applied to the 

 external surface of a heated animal drives the blood from the 

 skin to the internal organs, often causing congestion of the 

 lungs. Pulmonary diseases are more prevalent in the spring 

 and fall, particularly if the weather be cold and damp. 



This disease is generally ushered in by a shivering fit ; the 

 horse is sometimes attacked very suddenly ; he refuses his food ; 



