306 ^ AMEEICAN FARMER'S HORSE BOOK. 



ments are more sudden and spasmodic than in pneumonia. 

 As in that disease, he can not be induced to lie down. There 

 is a short, hurried cough, not easily distinguishable by most 

 observers, however, from that which marks bronchial or pul- 

 monary disease. The temperature is apt to be variable. 

 Sometimes it is even warmer than natural, and, though gen- 

 erally the reverse, the extremities are never so deathly cold 

 as in pneumonia. The mouth, upon the other hand, is not 

 80 hot, and the breath, in this respect, is almost natural. 



TREATMENT. 



This is substantially the same as that prescribed for bron- 

 chitis, with the addition of copious applications of corrosive 

 liniment to the sides, low down, both in front and back of 

 the shoulders, and between the fore-legs. 



