110 DISEASES OP THE HORSE. 



Sulphate of iron, three drachms; gentian root, three 

 drachms. Mix, and give in one dose every day for a 

 week or ten days. Give good feeding. 



Caution. — Unsafe to use — will return again. 



Indigestion- — However much, man in the sedentary 

 walks of life, may be the subject of this disease, the 

 horse with a task-master is comparatively free from it. 

 Cases do occur occasionally in our large cities, where in 

 too many cases the horse is left standing in the stable, 

 twenty out of the twenty-four hours. Idleness begets 

 indigestion, and indigestion begets crib-biting, or wind- 

 sucking, and between them the poor horse looses flesh, 

 condition and spirit. (See crib-biting.) 



Treatment — Send the horse to pasture, and when he 

 returns give him regular feed, and regular work to pre- 

 vent a return of it. 



Infection. — (See contagion.) 



Inflammation. — Inflammation of the various portions 

 or parts of the body will be found treated of under the 

 name of the organ or part afi*ected. 



Influenza- — This is a name which is properly applied 

 to an epizootic catarrh of frequent occurrence in the 

 spring of the year. Indeed it is very rare that we see 

 a cold run its course as such, without some complication 

 of one kind or another. 



Symptoms. — A chill or shivering fit, succeeded by in- 

 creased heat of the body, with fever and irritation. 

 Loss of appetite, cough, discharge of mucus from the 

 nose, watering of the eyes, great prostration of strength, 

 followed in a day or two with swellings of the legs, and 

 in bad cases, of the belly, breast, and in males, of the 



