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denly taking cold. If they cannot be walked 

 about, their nofes muft be covered to hinder the 

 fir ft fudden ingrcfs of the cold air ; their tails 

 fhould alfo be turned towards the wind, to pre- 

 vent its affeding the pituitary membrane, and 

 alfo care fhould be taken that the delicate tex- 

 ture of this membrane, fo expofed to the imme- 

 diate contad of the air and wind, may not have 

 too fudden a change from heat to cold. 



But if a horfe has been afFe6led in the glands 

 for a confiderable time, and has had a dif- 

 charge from the obllrudied fide without 

 coughing, the glanders is confirmed even tho* 

 he has a good appetite, and every other fign of 

 health. Emollient deco<5lions muft be thrown 

 up the noftrils, being careful to pufh them to 

 the frontal finufes, and to repeat them three times 

 a day for a week ♦, if the running continues, it 

 will be very proper to ufe fumigations, which 

 would come more into pradlice, if their good 

 effeds were better known. 



To fumigate is to make a horfe receive the 

 vapour or fmoke of certain medicines thrown 

 into the fire or upon a red-hot iron. And this 

 fumigation produces different effedls, according 

 to the different compofition made ufe of 



For this purpofe I thought of a kind of box 

 with a tube fixed to it, which may be put into 

 the noftril of the horfe ♦, this box has the ad- 

 vantage of conveying the vapour as intended, 



which 



