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applying them to the parts; and the oil of fire weed also 

 is good for this purpose; and even when the wound is 

 where you can not get at it in any other way, you may 

 take this oil, cut it with alcohol, and burn it underneath, 

 so that the smoke thereof will reach the vein or artery. 

 It has a powerful effect in stopping the blood. Horses 

 are sometimes taken bleeding profusely at the nose, in 

 consequence of a fall, a blow, or carrying too heavy a 

 load on their backs, which may be remedied by blowing 

 flour or salt up the nostrils. Sometimes tieing the head 

 up as high as you can, for a short time, will have the 

 desired effect. 



It should be remembered that we can give only the 

 general outlines for the treatment of this class of wounds. 

 They must be seen to enable us to judge accurately of 

 their treatment in all cases, as the manner in which they 

 are made and their location are so various. For we can 

 not speak of them with the same freedom that we could 

 after seeing them, or those that we are under the neces- 

 sity of making. 



STRANGLES, OR HORSE DISTEMPER. 



This is caused by a neglected cold, or by some con- 

 stitutional liability. It is a disease of the glands and 

 throat, which become swollen, hot and inflamed, reach- 

 ing also the muscles of the tongue, when the whole be- 

 comes sw^ollen and very sore. 



Symptoms. — The countenance dull, eyes and nose run, 

 glands swollen behind the jaw; he refuses his food in 

 consequence of its hurting him to swallow; constant 



