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with suitable clothing and warm bran mashes is all that is 

 necessary. In the more severe, steam the nose as for strangles, 

 and slightly charge the air with the fumes of burning sulphur, 

 give warm water injections or even a mild laxative (horse, ox, 

 or sheep, Glauber salts ; dog or pig, castor oil), followed by 

 refrigerant diuretics (nitre, acetate of potassa, etc.) If debility 

 ensues, feed well and give tonics (gentian, etc.), and stimulants 



Fig. II. — S)rphon for injecting the nose, 



(spirits of nitrous ether). Chronic discharges may usually be 

 promptly checked by injecting the nose with a weak astringent 

 solution (sulphate of zinc \ dr., glycerine i oz., tepid water i 

 qt) This is thrown in with a syphon having one arm sixteen 

 inches long and the other leaving that at an angle of 45°, three 

 and a half inches long and narrowing to half an inch at the 

 point. The short limb is inserted into the nostril, having first 

 been passed through a hole in the centre of a piece of sole 

 leather, intended to prevent the return of the fluid from the 

 nose. The adaptation is perfected by pledgets of tow, and the 

 head being brought into a vertical position, the liquid is poured 

 into the long end of the syphon until it rises in that nasal 

 chamber and escapes by the opposite nostril. One or two 

 such injections are usually sufficient 



COLLECTION OF MATTER IN THE NASAL SINUSES. 



This is common after severe colds in the horse ; and as the 

 result of blows on the forehead or horns in oxen, of injuries 

 from the yoke, etc. ; in sheep from grub in the head (larva of 

 CEstriis Ovis); in dogs and horses from the pentastoinata, and 

 in all animals from diseases of the upper back teeth. 



