136 The Horse Farriek. 



mal be naturally feeble, if bled it had better be sparingly 

 and be content with physic and laxatives. One grain of 

 strychnine, 3 times a day, might give tone to the nervous 

 system combined with 12 grains of flowers of zinc. The 

 animal probably will never be fit for hard service. 



PHEENTIS OR INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



By Phrentis we understand inflammation of the sub- 

 stance of the brain and its investing membranes. 



Symptoms. — Hanging of the head, dullness, watery 

 eyes, and sleepiness ; he is letharic, droops his head ; if 

 aroused, he stares around and then slumbers again. This 

 state does not ordinarily last but a few hours, or at most 

 a few days. A new train of symptoms manifest themselves. 

 He is wide awake, to sound his ears are up and his eyes 

 glare, he is restless, paws and moves about, whinners, 

 dashes, plunges, bites and kicks; thus he continues until 

 water compresses the brain or its substance suffers lesion, 

 when exhaustion, stupor and sleep, show a tendency to a 

 fatal issue. 



Treatment. — Bleed freely, purge freely. There is no 

 disease that will bear copious purging with so much 

 benefit as the one of which we are treating, 



HYDROPHOBIA OR MADNESS. 



This alarming and fatal disease results from the bite 

 of a rabid animal, as the dog, cat, or wolf. 



Symptoms. — ^The horse stops, looks round, staggers 

 and falls. He rises soon again, staggers and falls, soon 

 he becomes furious, stamping and biting, and endeav- 

 oring to demohsh everything around him. Like the 

 human beins;, the horse has a dread of water — the dread 

 seems to arise from the severe sj^asms of the muscles 

 called into action in the act of diglutition, and not from 

 any dread of the water by itself considered. When fully 

 established, this disease is considered incurable. 



When it is known that the animal has been bitten, 

 cauterize the wound freely and deeply with nitrate of 

 silver, wash it out with chloride of soda. 



