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many inquiring minds astray since their day of teaching 

 commenced. The treatment now recommended is sound, 

 scientific and successful, and in a very short time the 

 horse will be at work again, as if nothing had been amiss. 

 The first day of the disease, give, every 4 hours, 20 drops 

 of the tincture of aconite root in a little cold water ; next 

 day, give the tincture of nux vomica in fifteen drops every 

 four hours in the same way, till the horse is well, which 

 usually will be about the sixth or seventh day, and some- 

 times even sooner. If, however, the case does not improve, 

 and the appetite not good, give powdered carbonate of 

 ammonia and gentian root, each three drachms, to a dose 

 morning, noon and night, in addition to the tincture of 

 nux vomica. These medicines will have to be mixed with 

 cold water, and drench the horse out of a strong-necked 

 bottle or ox's horn cut slanting at the mouth. Keep the 

 ammonia in a bottle tightly corked till it is used, as- it 

 loses its strength by exposure to the air. Let the horse 

 have as much cold water to drink as he wants ; and for 

 this purpose a bucketfull should be kept before him. 

 Pure air and good ventilation should be insured to all sick 

 horses. Green, or soft feed should be given from the first 

 day if the horse will eat it. Green feed all the time of 

 sickness will be of advantage, but oats will have to be 

 given in addition, to support the strength and vital powers 

 of the system, to enable them to throw ofi" the efi'ects of 

 the disease. Such, then, is the manner of curing a di- 

 sease which has destroyed many horses, even when treated 

 by men calling themselves veterinary surgeons, or at least 

 horse doctors. (See Influenza and Rheumatism.) 



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