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draughts. Perhaps the most common cause of catarrh in 

 young horses is placing them in warm stables in the fall 

 immediately upon taking them off the pastures. The sud- 

 den change from a cold to a hot temperature is more likely 

 to cause catarrh than a change from a hot to a cold stable. 



Symptoms. — If the horse is standing in the stable, he 

 will appear dull and mopish, inclined to hang his head in 

 the manger ; the mouth is hot and the pulse quickened and 

 weak ; the coat begins to be starring and the lining mem- 

 brane of the nose is reddened ; if the larynx is involved, 

 light pressure on that region will cause coughing. This is 

 the congestive stage. It will soon pass off and exudation 

 take place from the vessels, causing a discharge from the 

 nostrils, at first watery and gradually becoming thicker and 

 of a yellowish hue. In some instances this matter becomes 

 pent up within the sinusses of the head, and comes away 

 every three or four hours in quantities. A watery discharge 

 from the eyes is often an accompaniment of catarrh. Should 

 these symptoms become aggravated the appetite is impaired, 

 the bowels costive and the foeces passed are of a clayey 

 nature, legs and ears cold, breathing accelerated. Catarrh, 

 if improperly treated or neglected by keeping the animal 

 at work, having constantly changing temperatures, is very 

 apt to descend to the chest and prove a prolific source for 

 more formidable diseases, such as pneumonia, pleurisy, 

 bronchitis. 



Treatment. — Keep the bowels open, feed carrots and 

 mashes, use counter-irritation of the larynx with mustard, 

 keep throat wrapped up with a blanket or something else, 

 so as to break off the cold from the thorax, give all the luke- 

 warm water or scalded gruel made of meal mixed in water. 

 Then give internally two drachms of belladonna and one 

 ounce of chlorate of potash, with a sufficient quantity of 

 honey, to be made into the form of an electuary and applied 

 with a spoon to the back of the tongue ; also put one-half 

 ounce chlorate of potash into a bucket of water and keep it 

 before the animal, that he may drink of it when he desires 

 to do so. 



Strangles or Distemper. — This disease is akin to 

 catarrh, as both are creatures of the same causes. Both 



