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times, through several days. There may be no need, per- 

 haps, of giving the drench of tobacco-juice more than once 

 or twice. Of the laudanum, an ounce will often be enough 

 to produce the desired effects, after the first day. 



If the horse will eat at all, feed light, and give no corn. 

 Green grass is the best food. For several weeks, keep him 

 perfectly quiet. 



When the brain has become seriously involved, it is too 

 late. Death will soon relieve the practitioner of all his la- 

 bors, and the patient of his suffering. . There is but one sure 

 indication of the abatement of the disease, and that is, the 

 running at the nose. In this disease, no positive assurance 

 of saving life can be given. All efforts will often fail, and, 

 still oftener, no remedy can be used at all. Hence, the im- 

 portance of prevention by one of the methods we have de- 

 scribed. 



RECAPITULATION OF TREATMENT. 



1st. Bleed as long as the horse can bear it. 

 2d. Give the drench of tobacco-juice, with the salts. 

 3d. Swab out the nostrils to open the ducts. 

 4th. Raise a blister over the region of the brain. 



GLANDERS. 



Although not usually classed as such by veterinary au- 

 thors, this is really just what its name implies — a disease of 

 the glands. The lymphatic and nasal glands in the head 

 are the ones particularly affected; and here the disease, in 

 its early stages, may often exist for months, or possibly for 

 years, entirely unsuspected. From them first proceed the 

 glanderous discharges from the nose, which afterward ulcer- 

 ate, the lining membrane of the nostril. Hence the reason 

 of our departure from nearly all antecedents in respect to 

 the classification of this disease. 



Glanders is indeed an awful malady, dreadfully contagious, 

 and when fully developed, nearly incurable. There are three 

 stages of it, as will be explained presently. Only in the first, 

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