S6 TffE IfARM DOCTOR. 



Solipeds stand obstinately throughout the disease, other 

 animals may lie. There is no tenderness on punching the ribs, 

 as in pleurisy. 



Treatment. — Rest in a warm, dry, airy building, clothe 

 warmly, bandage the limbs in cold weather, and give warm 

 sloppy mashes of wheat bran. A laxative is often useful, but 

 if there is weakness, small pulse, prostration, or any yellowish 

 tinge of the mucous membranes, is to be rejected, and warm 

 water injections used in place to move the bowels. Give fre- 

 quent diuretics (nitre, sweet spirits of nitre), anodynes (bella- 

 donna, lobelia, aconite), and expectorants (liquor ammonia 

 acetatis, oxymel of squill, guaiacum, ipecacuanha, antimony). 

 The nose should be frequently steamed, as if for strangles, and 

 inhalations of sulphur fumes mixed with the air, and not too 

 strong, may be added. Mustard or other blisters should be 

 applied to the sides of the chest, and repeated if any renewed 

 access of disease seems to deiiand it. When fever has nearly 

 subsided, and there is left only a white discharge from the nose, 

 tonics should be used. (See those recommended for Glanders^ 



When there is much prostration and weakness, stimulants 

 (aromatic ammonia, carbonate of ammonia, wine, etc.), may be 

 icquired, even in the early stages. 



GLANDER HEAVES. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS IN HORSES. 



This arises from the same causes as the acute disease, and 

 often follows it. It is characterised by a frequent weak wheez- 

 ing, husky, almost inaudible cough, often occurring in fits; a 

 white discharge from the nose, with white flocculi, like butter- 

 milk ; great shortness of breath in exertion ; and a mucous 

 rattle in the lungs. Percussion shows increased resonance over 

 the lower and posterior borders of the lungs. The right side 

 of the heart may be enlarged and easily felt beating behind the 

 right elbow. 



Treatment is not very satisfactory in cases of old standing 



