Nasal Gleet ; its Symptoms. 209 



Tills disease is frequently brought on by the 

 effects of a long-continued discharge from catarrh 

 or cold. It is unattended with any feverish 

 symptoms ; the flow of this thick mucous gleet is 

 often very considerable and variable in colour. 

 When the horse is living upon green food, it 

 often assumes a greenish hue, and sometimes 

 even a grass-green colour. If its diet is of dry 

 food, and it is kept in the stable, then it assumes 

 a very different hue, varying from cream-white 

 to brown or straw colour, and mixed with pus ; 

 in some instances this is mixed with blood. This 

 discharge is sometimes continuous, and at others 

 it is only occasionally squeezed out ; in the latter 

 case it is generally thick, and when so the disease 

 is generally on the wane. If, however, it is of 

 long duration, it sometimes assumes a serious 

 aspect, and may ultimately prove fatal. Some- 

 times this disease is accompanied with cough, 

 and when it is so the writer has found very good 

 results from the following pectoral balls given 

 every day for a week. They are also very good 

 for horses suffering from asthma or chronic 

 cough : — 



Ealsam of copaivi , 4 oz, 



Barbadoes tar 4 oz. 



Castillo soap 4 oz. 



Prepared kali 1 oz. 



beat them together in a mortar, then add — 



Carraway seed 4 oz. 



Aniseed 4 oz. 



Grains of paradise 4 oz. 



Liquorice powder 4 oz. 



Sufficient honey or treacle to form it into a stiff paste. 



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