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attention to warmth about the head and throat, 

 and to cleanHnefs in refpeft to the difcharge, 

 which may be very copious. Care mufl: be 

 taken, in cafe of fyringing the noftrils, that 

 the membrane be not abraded with (liarp and 

 ftimulating injeclions, which may induce puru- 

 lent ulcerations, of worfe confequence than 

 the original difeafe. Should the fever be con- 

 fiderable, with little or no difcharge from the 

 nofe, or with retention of urine, and nature feem 

 much oppreffed, and unable to throw off" the 

 load at any outlet, antimonials and powerful 

 diaphoretics are indicated. When the dif- 

 eafe has taken this turn, the fever will fome- 

 times run fo high, that, the flefh of the horfe 

 will feel burning hot, and he will refufe all 

 fuflenance, nor attempt to lie down until a 

 critical difcharge (liall happen fomewhere : this 

 crifis may come in the form of hot watery 

 eruptions or blyfters, in tumours under the 

 elbow or hock, or colle6lions of water along 

 the belly, near the inguinal glands, which the 

 farriers, who fliake up caufe and effeft, difeafe 

 and fymptoms, in the bag together, denominate 

 the water farcy. Nature having proceeded 

 thus far in her work, nothing remains for the 

 practitioner but to afTifl her gently with cooling 

 diuretics, and as occafion may require, relaxent 

 glyfters. 



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