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days, their case is hopeless. Running, trotting, livery, and fancy 

 horses are the most liable to take lung fever. The celebrated 

 Canadian trotting horse, St. Lawrence, died at Kalamazoo, 

 Michigan, in 1860, from lung fever, produced by cooling off too 

 suddenly after his race. The American trotting-horse, George 

 M. Patchin, died from the same cause j Royal George died at 

 Buffalo, in 1867, from the same cause ; the maid of Orleans died 

 from the same cause, after running her four-mile race. Livery 

 horses are subject to it, because they are so often over-heated, and 

 left standing in the cold by careless drivers. 



Fancy horses that are kept in warm stables with two or three 

 heavy blankets on, when brought in contact with the air, chill 

 very soon, unless kept in rapid motion. No horse should be 

 blanketed in the stable generally. If kept in a good stable 

 without clothing, and clothed whenever he is obliged to stand in 

 the air, it would be better. Never expose your horse to sudden 

 changes ; they affect his general health and spirits. Horses that 

 are regularly fed and worked, seldom if ever need any medicine. 



All horses should have plenty of exercise in the open air.. 

 Colts should never be housed up or confined ; nature intended 

 they should have a certain amount of exercise to develop their 

 muscles and lungs, to keep them in condition. This is why wild 

 horses excel tame ones ; they commence to run from the time 

 they are foaled, so that by the time they are four years old, they 

 are well develojDed. 



Treatment in Lung Fever : 



Tincture of aconite 1 oz. 



Tincture of veratrium i oz. 



Aqua 4 oz . 



Dose from fifteen to twenty-five dicjs en the tongue every 

 thirty or forty minutes. 



