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ventive, it is a specific. It is also a certain cure in the first 

 stage, and, in a majority of cases, equally eftective in the 

 second. Perhaps we might even affirm that it has been 

 known to save horses already passed into the third stage, 

 but, knowing how difficult it generally is to draw the line 

 of demarcation between this and the preceding stage, we 

 hesitate to claim more than assured facts will warrant. 



This antidote and highly valuable remedial agent is simply 

 tobacco. At those periods of the disease which we have 

 named, this hitherto useless and noxious weed possesses the 

 wonderful power of neutralizing the virus in the blood, and 

 of counteracting its contagious influences; to dry up the 

 nasal discharges; and, finally, not only to abate the disease, 

 but to remove its evil effects from the system entirely. 



TREATMENT. 



Bleed in the neck vein, removing about three quarts of 

 blood. Have ready a strong decoction of tobacco, of which 

 put one-fourth of a pint in a pint of warm water, and turn 

 this down the horse. It will make him very sick, but it 

 will aflect him much less than when in health, and thus 

 used, is not really dangerous. Wash out his nostrils with 

 the tobacco decoction, weakened with water, as directed in 

 the last section for staggers. Be at pains to reach as high 

 up the nostril with the mop as you can. The mixture must 

 be as hot as the horse can bear it. 



Continue this treatment from two to four weeks, or until 

 a favorable change is apparent. Use the mop in the nose 

 for eight or ten days; drench with the tobacco mixture 

 every third day for the time above mentioned; give the 

 horse as much sulphur and resin as you can get him to eat 

 for the space of t6n days. A full dose will be four ounces 

 of sulphur and two of resin, both pulverized. Let the food 

 be light and relaxing. Grass is the preferable diet, if it is 

 in season. If the horse is turned out to pasture, be sure that 

 no other stock is allowed access to it. Use every precaution 

 to prevent direct infection from the nasal- discharges. Stable 



