THE "GREEN" HORSE 



combat illness in an animal which can do neither, 

 nor call attention to other complications which 

 may exist ! In equine pathology all treatment 

 must be speculative, and one can but try and try 

 again. Certain evidences insure the presence 

 of special troubles, but the serious ailment may 

 totally escape notice, as in the cases mentioned 

 of apparently weak heart. Privation and fatigue, 

 the horse's limitations, insure that he shall but 

 feebly resist. 



Nature is the best veterinary, and her indicated 

 treatment of rest, and light feeding will result 

 favorably five times out of six, and her repairs, 

 slowly made, are the more enduring for that 

 reason. 



Sooner or later, then, you find your " green " 

 horse running at the nose, and possibly the eyes, 

 refusing his feed and probably coughing and 

 sneezing a little. If you can, forthwith stop his 

 grain ; feed him only a little hay (or a mash, 

 if his throat is sore, as probable), never more than 

 he will eat clean in thirty minutes or so, and all 

 remnants cleared away at once ; all the water he 

 will drink, with a dose (at once) of powdered nitre, 

 or one ounce saltpetre in it to keep his kidneys 

 active; clothe him warmly, bandaging his extrem- 



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