162 AMERICAN FARMER'S HORSE BOOK. 



to tliis course for the value of, at least, thirty young 

 mules. 



RECAPITULATION OF TREATMENT. . 



let. Bleed freely in the neck vein. 



2d. Give the distemper mixture according to prescription. 



3d. Wash the neck and throat with the hot decoction of 

 tobacco. 



4th. Fumigate, and use the other means for disinfecting 

 by tobacco. 



NASAL GLEET. * 



Accompanying distemper, there is always a thick and 

 more or less purulent discharge from the nose, continuing, 

 very often, after all the other symptoms have abated. It is 

 sometimes kept up for a long time, and becomes disagreea- 

 ble in the extreme. The thick mattery exudations from the 

 nose are blown out, in great flakes and plugs, many times a 

 day, to the great annoyance of all that go near. Such a 

 • horse is a 'downright nuisance. He is constantly snorting 

 to free his nose of the offensive matter, and, when least 

 suspecting it, one may suddenly find himself perfectl}- bespat- 

 ' tered with it. In his stall, every thing about him is be- 

 daubed — the bridle, the halter, the manger — none of which 

 can be touched without danger of having the hands covered 

 with the filth. 



This disease has received the name of gleet. It is *really 

 a species of chronic distemper, without the fever character- 

 izing its acute forms. Sometimes it becomes a most formi- 

 dable disease. The discharge is often mixed with blood, 

 • and is apt to partake of the color of the food — green, if the 



horse is feeding on grass ; yellow, if on corn ; white, if on cut 

 feed or oats. This is doubtless caused by the relaxing and 

 enlargement of the ducts which form the communication 

 between the month and nasal cavities from the eftects of 

 disease, so that the juices of the food, during mastication, 

 readily pass into the nostrils. Such a condition of these 

 ducts is by no means uncommon. Every one has seen it 



