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better than medicine in this disorder. In ordinary cases 

 the tumor will mature without any application or inter- 

 ference ; if it does so much the better. 



Blistering will do good when the tumor is unusually long 

 in coming forward. In ordinary cases the abscess will burst 

 of itself. The time for using the knife is indicated when 

 the tumor becomes pointed, and fluctuations are felt when 

 touched by the finger. 



Great attention from the first is required in nourishing 

 the patient ; every inducement to eat should be tried, such 

 as apples and carrots, crushed and scalded oats, or anything 

 the patient will eat. In some very bad cases, where the 

 animal is in danger of suffocation before the bursting of the 

 tumor, we have to perform tracheotomy to save the animal 

 from asphyxia. When recovery is progressing, tonics and 

 stimulants should be given to build up the constitution ; 

 those already recommended will suit very well, such as 

 ammonia, gentian, 6zc. 



THE LATE EPIZOOTIC. 



INFLUENZA, CATARRHAL FEVER, DISTEMPER, PINK 

 EYE, &c. 



This disease, which raged with such violence over the 

 United States and other countries, first made its appearance 

 here about the 20th of October, 1872, gradually extending 

 north and west to Canada, California, and even to India, 

 taking in its sweep both hemispheres. Neither age nor con- 

 dition seemed to interfere with its operations. Horses — old, 

 young, clean or dirty, the pampered trotter and the neglected 

 truck horse, all fared alike at the attack of this leveller, 

 which we call influenza in its epizootic form. 



Of the influences or morbid causes originating this dis- 

 order, the wisest thing to say is, that we know very little. 

 They have been termed atmospheric, electrical, and so forth, 



