126 INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



Symptoms of Yellow Water. The characteristics 

 of this disease, are a dusky yellowness of the eyes, 

 lips, and bars of the mouth; a dull, sluggish, appear- 

 ance ; a loss of appetite ; the excrement hard, dry, 

 yellow, and sometimes of a pale or light green ; the 

 urine uncommonly dark, of a dirty brown colour, and 

 when discharged a length of time, has the appearance 

 of blood. 



Remedy. Take of asafoetida one ounce; campho- 

 rated spirits, four table spoonfuls ; warm water one 

 pint; mix and give them as a drench, for three or four 

 mornings successively. Take of bran one and a hall 

 gallons, flour of sulphur one table spoonful, antimony 

 twenty grains, saltpetre twenty grains ; mix them well 

 together, and, with a strong decoction of sassafras, 

 scald the bran, forming a mash, which must be given 

 three nights in a week, not permitting the horse to 

 get wet, or drink water, except it is milk warm. His 

 stable should be a comfortable one, and he should have 

 a clean bed of straw placed under him. Bleed twice 

 in the neck vein, taking half a gallon of blood at each 

 bleeding, within the week ; let his exercise be regular 

 and moderate, and by the expiration of nine or ten days, 

 the cure, in all probability, will be performed. 



TO PREVENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



As most diseases that are infectious endanger the 

 life of a horse, I consider it important to every owner 

 of those useful animals, to be able to use a medicine 

 that will act against or prevent those diseases that are 



