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never has been good, and the slightest exertion puts him 

 completely off his feet. The flanks heave a little more 

 laboriously — heaving is painfully quickened when sudden 

 exertion is required — he coughs sorely, and discharges 

 from the nose a mucus tinged Avith blood, or a fluid de- 

 cidedly purulent — the breath becomes offensive — the 

 pulse is always above 40, and strangely increased by the 

 slightest exertion. 



Treatment. — If in the spring of the year, a run of 

 grass may be tried — invigorate the system by good nu- 

 tritious food — gentle exercise, pure air, and if the weath- 

 er be cold, warm clothing, with the addition of oat-meal, 

 pea-meal, linseed-meal, wheat flour, mixed with a liberal 

 quantity of salt — this will aid digestion, and abstract fluids 

 from the body. Should the excrements be voided with 

 difficulty or knotty, an injection of soap and water will 

 be advisable. Milk should be given about one quart per 

 day. In case of great prostration, milk should be given 

 with care. The digestive apparatus may be involved in 

 the deterioration of the system, and be unable to digest 

 the fatty constituent, (butter ;) hence, hi the exhibition 

 of a daily allowance of milk, attention must be paid to 

 the nutritive function, or such a simple article as milk 

 may prove a barrier to affecting a cure. In such a case, 

 to one pint of milk add two ounces of lime water — give 

 twice a day. 



For the medical treatment of this disease use phosphate 

 of lime — powdered bloodroot — powdered pleurisy root — 

 powdered Indian turnip — powdered goldenseal, 2 ounces 

 of each — powdered slippery elm, 1 pound — mix, and di- 

 vide the mass into twenty-four powders ; one to be given 

 in the food every night. 



STRANGLES OR HORSE DISTEMPER. 



This disease is principally incident to young horses — 

 usually appearing between the fourth and fifth year, and 

 oftener hithe spring than at any other time — it occasionally 

 attacks old animals. Few horses escape its attack ; but, 

 the disease having passed over, the animal is free from it 



