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ries. A slight discharge of glairy mucus now commenced runn:'ug 

 from both nostrils ; the scarlet spots had become more diiFused, and 

 of a brighter tint; the appetite had returned, and a few oats and 

 a small quantity of hay were occasionally allowed, which were 

 eaten. The limbs wtre hand-rubbed often, and the body wai* 

 chtthed with warm blankets. This treatment was followed up for 

 a period of five days, at the end of which time he had Improved 

 7ery much, yet the limbs were considerably swollen. 



On the tenth day I commenced to give four ounces of fluid ex- 

 tract of resin-weed per day, with an occasional dose of fluid extract 

 of golden seal, under which treatment he convalesced very rapidly, 

 so that on the sixteenth day all medicine was discontinued. I now 

 turned the animal into a small inclosure, where he seemed to takfl 

 pleasure in rolling and exercising himself, which had the efiect 

 of reducing the dropsical swelling of the limbs, and on the fourth 

 of December the patient was sent home — not exactly to go to work, 

 but to receive care and attention until he had recovered from the 

 eflccts of the disease, and had gained his ordinary strength. 



It is very difficult to say to what extent scarlet fever among 

 horses prevails in the United States ; for very little, if any thing, 

 has ever appeared in print of American origin, except that which 

 has appeared from the pen of the author of this work. On the 

 other side of the water, however, the disease is of frequent oc- 

 currence, and is well understood. The first account of it published 

 in England was from the pen of ISIr. PERcn''ALL, in the year 1843, 

 who says that " the existence of scarlet fever has received such 

 confirmation from other quarters as to leave no doubt in my mind 

 that, rare as tho malady acknowledgedly is, and hitherto unde- 

 scribed as it has remained, it will one day find a place in our es- 

 tablished veterinary nosology." 



Since the above date. Surgeon Hayoock and several other 

 writers have noticed the disease, treated it, and minutely described 

 its symptoms. They all agree that when the disease does makts 

 its ajipearance, it is usually the sequel of epidemic catarrh, or in- 

 fluenza ; and this was probably the case regarding the patient the 

 subject of this paper, for the owner informed me that the animal 

 had previously shown symptoms of distemper. 



