210 Management and Treatment of the Hoi'se. 



Give two ounces each day for three days, then 

 every other day for a week, and afterwards one 

 or two a week. The writer frequently stimulates 

 the nostrils with the fumes of vinegar ; and for 

 this purpose make a brick red hot and put a horse 

 cloth over the horse's head, holding the brick on 

 a shovel under the cloth, and pouring gently the 

 vinegar on to the brick. The fumes are confined 

 in the rug, and the animal is forced to inhale it. 

 This will be found to cleanse the nostrils and 

 heal the irratation of the mucous membrane. If 

 the disease is of long standing, it may be as well 

 to use Venice turpentine alternately with the 

 vinegar. For this purpose the turpentine should 

 be mixed with bran, and put into a nose-bag, 

 boiling water poured upon it, and then put upon 

 the horse's head ; when it begins to get cool the 

 bag should be immersed again in hot water to 

 keep up the steam. In slight cases the following 

 may be found to be all that is necessary to effect 

 a cure: — One ounce of sulphate of copper made 

 into a ball with linseed meal and treacle, twice 

 a day. This disease, although discharging a 

 quantity of mucous and pus, is neither infectious 

 nor contagious, although, if left unattended to, it 

 may assume in a secondary stage a serious aspect. 



STRANGLES. 



This disease is incidental to all horses in their 

 youth, and indeed is looked upon as a baby's com- 

 plaint. It attacks the colt generally between the 

 age of two and three years, though sometimes 



