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should be clothed according to the season of the year. The exter- 

 nal treatment is of great importance, and consists of the applica- 

 tion to the lung of four ounces of mustard to a half pint of water. 

 An ordinary newspaper should be applied to the part while wet. 

 Hot bran poultices should be applied to the lungs, with an occa- 

 sional repetition of the mustard. Cool and fresh drinking water 

 should be placed in the stall. The poultices may be put into ordi- 

 nary wide bags, tied together and thrown across the horse's back. 

 The poultice should be manipulated so as to cover equally the 

 lung. It should be tied down with a long rope that will reach 

 twice around the body, ^ * 

 bringing it to bear on the 

 anterior and posterior 

 part of the bag. "Where 

 such treatment is em- 

 ployed, not more than one 

 in fifty will succumb to 

 pleurisy or pneumonia. 

 Aconite tincture, twenty 

 drops, three or four times 

 a day, in conjunction 

 with one ounce of alcohol 

 in a pint of water, should be administered. Sweet spirits of 

 nitre in one-ounce doses may be given every four hours, or the 

 liqua acetate of ammonia, in two-ounce doses, may be given. 

 Nitrate of potash should be given in three-drachm doses in the 

 early stages of the disease, and increased to one ounce in the 

 later stages. During convalescence three drachms of gentian 

 with three drachms of sulphate of iron may be used in the feed 

 night and morning. la this disease the licinid foods recom- 

 mended for the sick are of the greatest importance, especially 

 the preparations of mHk. 



Fig. 86— The Manner of Applying a 

 Poultice to the Lungs. 



