COLDS OR CATARRH, AND MEGRIMS, 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



COLDS OR CATARRH, AND MEGRIMS. 



AN inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nasal 

 cavity. First reduce the solid food of your horse, substi- 

 tuting grass or carrots in reasonable quantity. I would only 

 reduce his grain by one-half. Give him to drink tar-water, 

 say one quart of tar put in the bottom of his bucket, then 

 bucket filled with water, and let it stand overnight ; when 

 drunk, fill it up again until the tar ceases to give out any v 

 virtue, then remove the dross and put in fresh. He will 

 soon get over it by this treatment unless he is very bad, with 

 considerable fever attending. If alarmed, you had better 

 send for a professional, for when it gets to that stage it 

 may be a long case and hard to cure, and if not properly 

 taken in hand may result disastrously. 



Having now written all I deem necessary at this time on 

 diseases, I will add a little on miscellaneous subjects. But 

 just at this juncture my farmer, who has two, to him, very 

 valuable work horses, tells me there is a disease prevalent 

 in the neighborhood, and that a friend of his has lost a 

 pair of horses that cost him' three hundred dollars. I tell 

 him, without knowing anything about the disease, to get 

 asafoetida, and put a lump big as a walnut in a rag, and 

 nail it in the bottom of his horse-bucket, and another lump 

 somewhere near his feed trough, so that he cannot get at 

 it to eat (as some are very fond of it), but so that he will 

 inhale the air infected by it. Then whitewash every week 

 around his trough and inside of it, and around his hay- 



