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carefully to the feedins:. The food should lie in little 

 compass— pleuty of oats and little hay, but no chaff. 

 Gieen meat will always be serviceable. Carrots are 

 particularly useful. 



Next in importance stands exercise. 



"^rhe wheezer utters a sound not unlike that of an 

 asthmatic person when a little hurried. This is a kind 

 of th'ck wind, and is caused by the lodgment of sotne 

 mucus fluid in the small passasfes of the lungs. It fre- 

 quently accompanies bronchitis. Wheezing can be 

 heard at all times, even when the horse is at rest in the 

 stable ; roaring" is confined to the increased breathing of 

 considerable exertion. ^ 



PHTHISIS PULMONALIS, OR CONSUMPTION. 



What is the medical treatment of confirmed phthisis, 

 or consumption ? The practitioner must be guidetl by 

 circumstances. If the horse is not very bad, and it is 

 the spring of the year, a run at grass may be tried. 



The medical treatment, if any is tried, will depend on 

 two simple and unerring o^uides, the pulse and the mem- 

 brane of the nose. If the first is quick and hard, and 

 the second streaked with red, venesection should be re- 

 sorted to. Small bleed itigs of one or two quarts, omit- 

 ted when the pulse is quieted and the nostril is pale, 

 may be eflfected. Counter-irritants will rarely do harm. 

 They should be applied in the form of blisters, extend- 

 ing over the sides. 



Sedative medicines should be perseveringly admin- 

 istered. 



Nitre may be added as a diuretic, and pidvts antimo- 

 nialis as a diaphoretic. 



A, BOTS. 



The bots cannot, while they inhabit the sto.nach of 

 the horse, give the animal any pain, for they have fas- 

 tened on the cuticular and insensible coat. They can- 



