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disease. Probably this condition is the result of cold settled 

 in these muscles from some cause; or, it may be, from some 

 strain or lesion of them, or of their connection with the tenr 

 dons. Some have supposed it to be a form of rheumatism. 

 The affection was formerly called chest founder, and by that 

 name is still best known to most American farmers. 



Whatever the real causes of the attack, its symptoms are 

 obvious enough. The horse manifests pain when he is 

 touched; there is evident stiffness of the shoulders and legs 

 during motion, and, at times, there is considerable fever. 



TREATMENT. 



"Wash the breast in some warm salt and water in the morn- 

 ing, and again at night ; and on the second day apply the cor- 

 rosive liniment to the chest. Give as a drench, as hot as the 

 animal can bear it, a pint of salt and water, in which has been 

 stirred half an ounce of ground ginger and one dram of 

 tartar emetic. Six days will usually be long enough for this 

 to do its work; but, if necessary, its use may be continued 

 longer, until a decided improvement is perceptible. 



In a bad case, bleed moderately. 



BRONCHITIS. 



Bronchitis is but one of the legitimate fruits of exposure, 

 such, for instance, as that depicted at the opening of the 

 last chapter, where we saw the heated and steaming horse 

 turned out into the cold and biting storm, there to stand 

 shivering and freezing in the mud, through a long winter 

 -jiight. As a consequence of that treatment, there was first 

 a cold, next enlarged glands, and then swelled throat. Happy 

 that horse and owner if the difficulty goes no further than 

 this. Sometimes it will not; but often the inflammation 

 creeps downward from the larynx through the trachea into 

 the bronchi and air-passages of the lungs. 



Bronchitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane 

 lining the bronchial tubes, which membrane, becoming filled 

 with blood, the diameter of the tube is sensibly diminished. 



