78 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



cold water or ice to the back of the head. Strong 

 alum water should be injected, or acetate of lead 

 half an ounce, water one pint; or flour may be 

 blown into the nostrils. I have had good success 

 from blowing prepared chalk. In very bad cases 

 the nostrils will have to be plugged. Take tow or 

 some soft substance and tie a soft string around it, 

 then press this into the nostril; never plug both 

 nostrils at once. Hypodermic injections of tinc- 

 ture of ergot of rye, one to two ounces, are some- 

 times useful. 



LARYNGITIS, OR SORE THROAT. 



This is an inflammation of the soft tissue and 

 mucous membrane of the larynx, and occasionally 

 extending to the windpipe. 



Causes: The same as catarrh. A very common 

 cause is bringing a horse from a. cold to a warm 

 stable, or when the animal is first brought in from 

 the field and put into a close stable. 



Symptoms: Pain in the throat when the animal 

 is swallowing food or water, or when the throat is 

 slightly pressed. The horse keeps his nose ele- 

 vated so as to ease the throat. The mouth con- 

 tains a quantity of ropy saliva, the animal's throat 

 being too sor.e to swallow it. Cough is easily caused 

 by attempting to swallow, and fluids are ejected 

 through the nose. At the beginning the cough is 

 hard and rather rough; when the morbid action ad- 

 vances, and the discharge is considerable, the cough 

 becomes soft and the sound loss rough; There is 

 more or less fever. The pulse from sixty to eighty, 



