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less observable each successive year, and, ordinarily, the 

 muscles and tendons will so accommod^tte themselves to the 

 new condition of things that, after a time, the enlargement 

 can scarcely be detected. 



!N'ot less than ten thousand horses and mules, of which the 

 author had knowledge, were cured by this treatment during 

 the years from 1850 to 1858. The cure is radical. When it 

 has once been effected, the horse is no more liable to the dis- 

 ease than if he had never had it; nor will any ugly scars 

 remain to proclaim that he was ever unsound. 



For the sake of convenience, a recapitulation of the treat- 

 ment before laid down is here subjoined : 



1st Bleed from two to six times, at intervals of from six 

 to ten days, iaccording to the aggravation of the symptoms. 



2d. Apply the corrosive liniment every other day, as di- 

 rected. 



3d. Give a table-spoonful of stramonia, or "jimson" seed, 

 daily, with intervals of omission as specified, as long as may 

 be necessary. 



4th. In the absence of the "jimson " seed, give proper doses 

 of sulphur, with the aloes pill. 



AFTER TREATMENT. 



This must be judicious and careful. Unless the object is to 

 kill him, the horse should never be worked while convales- 

 cing. When the weather is bad, he should be kept in a 

 warm, clean stable. If pasture is in season, he should be 

 turned upon it .during the day, but during cold rains, and 

 on chilly nights, he must be brought into the stable. Should 

 the weather be unusually damp or cold, he should be covered 

 with a blanket. The little blood which a horse in this con- 

 dition has is very thick, and he is much more sensitive to the 

 cold than when in health. 



MODES OF TREATMENT FORMERLY PRACTICED. 



A brief sketch of the practices in use at the South for the 

 cure of big head twenty years ago, can scarcely fail to inter- 

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