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the symptoms, the first four or five days, when in many cases the 

 pulse may run down to thirty. Stimulants should be used at this 

 stage, such as a little brandy and water or whisky and water. A 

 gill or two of liquor to be given as a drench, or what is much bet- 

 ter, is, take carbonate of ammonia, from one to two drachms ; 

 powdered , ginger root, one to two drachms, made into a ball with 

 honey or molasses, and given twice a day. It should be remem- 

 bered that this treatment alone is intended only for the low stage 

 of the disease. When the pulse seems to rise to fifty or sixty about 

 the fifth or sixth day, the patient should then be treated as for 

 pleurisy, with fever medicine. Under the influence of the latter 

 treatment, the pulse will recede and resume its natural number of 

 beats (forty). In this form of disease the horse is extremely pros- 

 trated at first, the whole system being inactive. The pulse may 

 run up in time to seventy, or even eighty. 



The horse should be kept moderately warm, clothing thoroughly 

 the head, neck, and extremities ; he should have a comfortable, 

 well-ventilated stall ; open the bowels by enemas ; give tepid 

 water to drink in which is a little nitrate of potash, as advised for 

 pneumonia. Nurse the horse with anything he will eat,— a hand- 

 ful of wet hay, a carrot or two, an apple or a potato, or anything 

 of an alterative nature. 



Be careful not to exercise too soon. 



Bronchitis. 



Bronchitis, or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the 

 bronchial tubes, is often associated with inflammation of the lungs, 

 but also occurs as a separate aflfection. 



Causes are similar to other pulmonary diseases. It is a result 

 of laryngitis, or catarrh; or it may depend on atmospheric influ- 

 ences, and in these cases it is always accompanied with great weak- 

 ness and prostration. 



Symptoms. — There is a short, dry, and husky cough, speedily 

 becoming more prolonged. When a horse gives a natural cough, 

 he opens his mouth a little; but when laboring under this disease, 

 he keeps his mouth closed, trying to suppress the cough. As the 

 disease advances, the mouth becomes hot and dry, the ears and 

 extremities alternately hot and cold, the pulse not hard and wiry 



