126 INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



Symptoms of Yelloic Water. — The characteristics 

 of this disease, are a dusky yellowness of the eyes, 

 lips, and bars of the mouth; a dull, sluggish, appear- 

 ance ; a loss of appetite ; the excrement hard, dry, 

 yellow, and sometimes of a pale or light green ; the 

 urine uncommonly dark, of a dirty brown colour, and 

 when discharged a length of time, has the appearance 

 of blood. 



Remedy. — Take of asafostida one ounce; campho- 

 rated spirits, four table spoonfuls ; warm water one 

 pint; mix and give them as a drench, for three or four 

 mornings successively. Take of bran one and a hall 

 gallons, flour of sulphur one table spoonful, antimony 

 twenty grains, saltpetre twenty grains ; mix them well 

 together, and, with a strong decoction of sassafras, 

 scald the bran, forming a mash, which must be given 

 three nights in a week, not permitting the horse to 

 get w^et, or drink water, except it is milk warm. His 

 stable should be a comfortable one, and he should have 

 a clean bed of straw placed under him. Bleed twice 

 in the neck vein, taking half a gallon of blood at each 

 bleeding, within the week ; let his exercise be regular 

 and moderate, and by the expiration of nine or ten days, 

 the cure, in all probability, will be performed. 



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TO PREVENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



As most diseases that are infectious endanger the 

 life of a horse, I consider it important to every owner 

 of those useful animals, to be able to use a medicine 

 that will act against or prevent those diseases that are 



