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usually caused by exhaustion and inability 

 to breathe. 



The large majority, probably about go per 

 cent., of horses which become affected by this 

 disease, die. 



Treatment. The only treatment which I 

 have found at all beneficial is careful nursing 

 and change of air, for instance, to a deck 

 (preferably the exposed deck) above the one 

 on which the patient became affected, or from 

 the leeward to the windward side. The only 

 way to be successful in this attempt is to begin 

 the treatment at the very onset of the attack. 

 If constipation be present, back-raking, an 

 enema, and a dose of Epsom salts might be 

 tried. As a stimulant, spirits (a quarter of a 

 pint of whisky in a pint of water) or carbonate 

 of ammonia (2 drachms in a ball) may be useful. 



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