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remedies are already prescribed, it will be of the highest 

 importance to apply powerful blisters to the front and sides 

 of the neck, such as are recommended in the preceding 

 article. Thick mustard plasters are mostly used in city 

 practice, applied the whole way from the jaw to the sternum. 

 When the bowels are constipated give no drastic medicine ; 

 this can be done by clysters of warm soap-suds, &c. The 

 patient should be encouraged to take some kind of light, 

 nourishing food ; a little warm gruel is about the best that 

 can be given. Even after recovery has progressed for some 

 days, food in small quantities only is to be given, such as 

 scaled oats, green food, but no hay. To build up the 

 animal's strength tonics and stimulants are now required. 

 For this purpose take of — 



Carbonate of ammonia. } r^. r i 



^ ,• y Iwo ounces of each. 



Gentian. ) 



Make this mass up into eight balls ; give one morning and 

 evening, with nourishing food and gentle exercise. 



PNEUMONIA, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



Cause, — In addition to the many pernicious influences 

 already mentioned that excite and produce inflammation of 

 the air passages in the horse, there are some others yet to 

 be considered. Foremost among these is one for which 

 ignorance, heedlessness, or influences beyond our control 

 cannot be pleaded, and that is the fashionable atrocity of 

 clipping horses in the winter season. Bronchitis and inflam- 

 mation of the lungs, ending in death, are in thousands of 

 instances the penalty of this beautiful habit. The pockets 

 of some of our fast men have to pay very handsomely at 

 times to indulge this fancied improvement. 



Nature and science (both protestants from the earliest 

 ages) cry out against this system as a monstrous innovation 

 on their laws. No amount of blanketing and other clumsy 

 appliances will compensate for nature's winter garment. 



