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with back-raking, may also be tried, in order to excite the 

 bowels into action. 



If debility should appear, tartar emetic should be 

 withheld. If, in spite of this, the weakness increase, the 

 horse may have linseed tea, made thick, placed before 

 it, with two quarts of stout per day. The aconite, likewise, 

 should be withdrawn, and attention paid to the legs, rubbing 

 them whenever they are cold. In extreme cases brandy and 

 ammonia are admissible. 



When the disease abates, which it generally does in 

 forty-eight hours, the care must not lessen ; for the attack 

 is likely to recur, or remain in a chronic stage as thick or 

 broken wind, or even to degenerate into glanders. It is apt 

 to involve other structures in its progress, as the pleura, 

 when the s3^mptoms will be somewhat confused, being 

 between pleurisy and pneumonia. In such a case the 

 terminations may be either those of inflammation of the 

 lungs, or of the pleura. 



It is a bad sign when the flanks heave, and the horse's 

 head is put out of the window ; and a much worse one when 

 the head is withdrawn and the eye becomes amaurotic; 

 when the animal keeps walking round and round his box, 

 and breaking into partial sweats, sometimes raises his head 

 and neighs, proving he is delirious, and in imagination 

 answering the call of his species. In this last case be 

 certain that death is not far ofl". 



HYDROTHORAX (WATER IN THE CHEST). 



This is a result of pleurisy, or pleuro-pneumonia, as the 

 double disease of both pleura and lungs is called. It is 

 generally fatal. The only chance is by the operation called 

 "tapping," which is effected by introducing a trocar (a 

 cutting instrument with a canula four inches in length, and 

 a quarter of an inch in diameter), when the fluid contained 

 in the cavity punctured escapes. Percivall recommends 

 aloes, calomel, digitalis, and tartarised antimony to be 

 persisted in, and after the tapping the following : 



Blue vitriol ..... 1 drachm. 



Digitalis ... . i drachm. 



Tartarised antimony . . . 2 drachms. 



Turpentine . . . g. s. for a ball. 



