DISEASES OF THE LUNGS 3 



kept up to about 55 Fahr., and outside it a convenient place may be chosen 

 to keep water boiling so that a pail or two of hot water may be brought into 

 the stable to keep the air moist. The legs should be bandaged and the body 

 warmly, but not heavily, clothed, a hood forming part of the suit worn. 



If the throat shows signs of soreness, counter -irritation should be 

 applied to it and along the front of the neck to the breast, and if the 

 chest trouble is severe, an application of turpentine liniment to the chest- 

 walls will be desirable. Mustard should not be chosen for this purpose, as 

 the pungent, irritating vapour given off from it while on the skin provokes 

 coughing and tends to add to existing distress. 



Although we cannot induce the horse to expectorate in the ordinary 

 sense of the word, yet we adopt those agents known as expectorants to 

 facilitate the removal of mucus from the tubes, where its presence is 

 causing so much annoyance. Electuaries of belladonna, in combination 

 with camphor and ipecacuanha, or tartarized antimony, will be preferred, 

 and especially where sore throat precludes the administration of draughts; 

 but if these cannot be given without distress to the patient, other remedies 

 of a nature too volatile to enter into an electuary may be chosen. Of these, 

 compound tincture of camphor (paregoric elixir), chlorodyne, sether, nitrous 

 aether, carbonate of ammonia, and tincture of squills are among those re- 

 commended; while the drinking water may be chosen as the vehicle for 

 such salts as chlorate or nitrate of potash, and the bicarbonates of potash 

 and soda. 



Inhalation of steam, or rather, we should say, the vapour of hot water, 

 usually affords relief, and may be made more potent by the admixture of a 

 small amount of friars' balsam, camphor, or eucalyptus oil. These may be 

 mixed with hot bran in a nose-bag, which should not be left on, but used 

 while an attendant is standing by for a few minutes at a time only. With 

 an abatement of the more distressing symptoms the cough in some cases 

 proves obstinate and threatens to become chronic. Medicines may in such 

 cases be advantageously administered in the form of bolus, and be composed 

 of tar, powdered squills, opium and gum ammoniacum, or for opium may 

 be substituted some other anodyne if it has already been given for some 

 time in the course of the attack. 



If during the early days of the disease the bowels are constipated as a 

 result of the febrile state, they may be regulated by soft food and a few 

 spoonfuls of linseed-oil given with it from day to day in preference to an 

 aperient dose of medicine. Some glycerine may be introduced into the 

 bowel, or soap and warm water enemata employed. The extreme debility 

 that follows a severe attack may in some instances account for the per- 

 sistency of the cough, and tonic treatment is then called for. 



