LARYNGITIS, OE SORE THROAT. 843 



medicine ; if the case is serious, as stated, it may run into general 

 inflammation of the air passages, as bronchitis or laryngitis : also 

 hand-rub and bandage the legs ; the clothing and bandages must 

 be removed twice a day, and the body well rubbed over. Give 

 one or two drachms of aloes in solution combined with half a 

 drachm of powdered ginger. Steam the head by means of a nose 

 bag partly filled with scalded bran, into which put an ounce or 

 two of turpentine. Hang the bag on the head same as in cut, be- 

 ing careful not to have it so tight around the nose as to heat or 

 scald it, and be oppressive. Many cases have been suffocated by 

 having the bag brought too tightly over the nose. A few repeti- 

 tions of this will cause the nose to run freely. ' Nurse by giving bran 

 mashes, boiled oats, etc. Rest and care will usually do the rest. 

 In mild cases it is not necessary to use the nose bag. A few 

 doses of tartar emetic and nitrate of potash may be given daily in 

 a bran mash, and the throat rubbed with a stimulating liniment. 

 If there is much inflammation of the throat and air passages, any 

 good liniment may be applied on the throat and around the chest 

 and bandaged as shown in cut. 



LARYNGITIS, OR "SORE THROAT," 



Consists in inflammation of the mucous membrane of the head 

 of the windpipe (larynx). It is generally called "sore throat," 

 and is a very common affection among horses, occurring in a 

 variety of forms, being some- 

 times of a very acute nature, 

 and running its course with 

 great rapidity ; in other cases of 

 a milder type, and assuming 

 what may be called a sub-acute 

 form. 



Causes are similar to ca- 

 tarrh, as undue exposure to 

 Cold and variations in the FIG. 753. Simple method of covering 

 temperature; but in some the throat, 



seasons it appears as an epizootic disease, large numbers of horses 

 becoming affected with it about the same time. These cases are 

 always of a typhoid nature, more especially when occurring in 

 stables insufficiently ventilated. 



