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regular and healthy. An improvement will soon be 

 noticed. As per our note on page 119, to mention 

 another remedy, we name the following : One grain of 

 iodide of iron ; half a grain of strychnine ; add sufficient 

 quassia powder and molasses to n>ake a ball, and give it 

 night and morning. At the end of a few weeks increase 

 the strychnine to one grain, and three or four weeks 

 after make it a grain and a half. 



SPINAI, MENINGITIS, OR COMPLETE PARAI.YSIS. 



This disease often occurs from injuries to the spinal 

 cord by hitting the animal over the backbone. He 

 loses complete control of the hind legs, and has no feeling. 

 Sometimes there is no apparent cause for this disease. 

 Some think this disease is contagious ; but this cannot 

 be substantiated. The horse generally dies in three or 

 four days. The cords and muscles along the entire back 

 are subject to a nervous twitching, and the pulse is low. 

 If the horse is bled, the blood is thick and dark. The 

 urine is very strong and offensive and dark in color. 



Wet blankets, wrung out of warm water, should be 

 applied for three or four days, and the horse put in a 

 sling as soon as possible. A double dose of Pratts Food, 

 Pratts Animal Regulator or Pratts Condition Powder in 



