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common occurrence in town than in country practice. Symptoms : 

 When an animal is evidently on the way to recovery from a severe 

 attack of influenza, or some such disease, it may all at once be found 

 with swelled legs, eyelids, nose, and mouth, and patchy swellings all 

 over the body, while, on closer examination, dark purple blotches are 

 seen inside the nostrils. The breathing becomes much quicker, and 

 the pulse is small and fast, while there is a yellow discharge from the 

 nostrils. Occasionally the swellings about the head are so large, that 

 the breathing is oppressed to such an extent that suffocation is 

 threatened, and tracheotomy must be performed, while the limbs may 

 become so much swollen that the animal can scarcely stir, and has at 

 length to be supported on slings. Treatment : When first observed, 

 the horse should at once be put in a loose box, where it can have a 

 plentiful supply of fresh air, and, when necessary, ought to be put in 

 slings. Milk, linseed jelly, and eggs beaten up in milk, may be given, as 

 well as green food, and boiled barley, if it has any appetite. All the 

 food must be light, and easy to digest. No purgatives should be 

 administered. Chlorate of potash, in two drachm doses, every four or 

 SIX hours (given in drinking fluids) has a very beneficial effect, while 

 two ounce doses of hyposulphite of soda can be given, night and 

 morning, in sloppy mashes or drinking water ; but the malady being 

 of such a formidable character, the patient should be placed at once 

 in the care of a veterinary surgeon, as in many difficult cases, by the 

 injection of preparations of iodine in solution into the windpipe, the 

 animal can be, and has been, saved. 



446. Influenza and Pink-Eye. — These are described under 

 " Respiration " — Lecture IX. 



447. Urticaria, Blaines, Howkes, or Nettle-Rash. — This is 

 another blood affection of a non-contagious and non -febrile type, 

 analogous to what is termed " musselling " in the human subject. It 

 is characterised by the sudden springing up of patchy elastic swellings 

 all over the body which, however, cause little or no distress to the 

 animal, and may disappear quite as suddenly as they came. The 

 cause is generally traceable to some strange food, or quality of food, 



