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nate of ammonia from one to two drachms, powdered ginger 

 root from one to two drachms ; made into a ball with honey 

 or molasses ; administer twice a day. It is to be remem- 

 bered that this treatment is to be used only in the low stage 

 of the disease. If the pulse rises to fifty or sixty on the fifth 

 or sixth day, then the patient should be treated as if for 

 pleurisy and fever medicines used. Under this latter treat- 

 ment the pulse will subside and resume its natural number 

 of beats (40). In this form of the disease the horse is ex- 

 tremely prostrated at first, the whole system being inactive. 

 At first the pulse may run up to seventy or eighty. The 

 horse should be kept moderately warm, the head, neck and 

 extremities clothed well ; should have well ventilated stall, 

 with no draught on him ; keep bowels open by injections ; 

 give plenty water, but be sure to take the chill air off it by 

 putting a few quarts of warm water into the bucket of cold 

 water, with a little of nitrate of potash, as directed in pneu- 

 monia. Nurse the horse with anything he will eat — an 

 apple, carrot, a handful of wet hay, a little warm grass or 

 anything he will eat of an alterative nature. Be sure for 

 lour or five days to let him have all the quiet and rest pos- 

 sible, after which all will be well. Do not put him to 

 hard labor of any kind too soon for fear of a relapse brought 

 on by enervation or weakness. 



Worms. — Since there are thousands of good horses 

 whose health becomes impaired when worms accumulate 

 in large number in their systems, one cannot be too careful 

 in his examination of the causes why his horse does not look 

 or do well. He gives the animal plenty of good, nutritious 

 food and he eats, but the hair stares, his foeces becomes dry, 

 belly tucks up, and he neither gains flesh or otherwise does 

 well. These symptoms generally indicate worms, which live 

 in the horse by sucking up the nutrition of his food, inter- 

 fering with and sometimes demoralizing the gastric juices, 

 also greatly depleting the sugary quality of the bile (called 

 kime). When this takes place necessarily bad digestion 

 must follow, then weakness, a rough coat and bad general 

 health. Unless timely vermifuges are given, with other 

 purgative medicine, of which I give a list that are almost in- 

 fallible for eradicating worms and producing a reaction for 



