150 On the Yellow Water of Horses. 



what I have collected, it appears to me, that those at 

 grass, exposed to hot days and damp, de^vy and chilly 

 nights, are the most subject to this disorder. Stabling 

 or shech^ to cover them at nights, would be salutary. 

 A member of this society (our vice president, J. Curwen 

 Esq.) lost an horse with this disorder, kept in a large 

 pasture field, without communicating -with any other 

 horse, for a great length of time. Two or thre€, among 

 30 or 40 others, liave died in livery stables, with the 

 tfellow water; and none of the rest have caught the dis- 

 order. 



I omitted mentioning, tlmt, as soon as I perceived my 

 fii*st horse to be ill, I turned the other three out of the 

 stable, on an extensive lawn, or open field. They were 

 playful, and coursed violently, for an hour or more, 

 through my grounds ; and induced an opinion that they 

 were safe. But this exercise excitedxht lurking disease. 

 For in a few hours, one fell apparently lifeless, and 

 shortly afterwai'ds died. He was raised on his legs, for 

 some tim^e previously to his catastrophe, by a copious 

 bleeding. The other two, though less affected, shewed 

 for the first time, symptoms of languor, and stiffness in 

 theii' hind legs and quarters. 



The tonsils^ or almonds, of the ears, of horses dead 

 ip^ith this disorder, have been found (as I have heard) 

 much sv/elled. I have been told of cures performed by 

 the cautery [hot iron] applied behind the ears, and an 

 incision being made, it vras stuffed with salt; so as to 

 produce suppuration. I much doubt whether the dis- 

 order was the yellow water ^ thus cured. This is not a 

 disease so local, as are the glanders^ strarigles, or znves. 

 It is not attended with defiuxions^ like a common horse 

 disorder. 



