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you handle the horse about the shanks and pinch them between 

 your fingers he will give evidence of p.xin by flinching; or, again, 

 press the ends of your fingers into the bones of the face and he 

 will soon show you how much it hurts; in such cases, taken in 

 conjunction with the symptoms previous!}' eiuunerated, this may 

 be accepted as a leading indication for Eupatorium Ur. Dun- 

 ham discovered the difference between this drug and Bryonia in 

 ■cases of bilious fever, and came to the conclusion that in Jyrjoiiia 

 the perspiration is free, while in Eupatorium it is suppressed. 

 Eupatorium is suitable when the patient is restless and uneas}'. 

 Bryonia when quiet and apparently depressed, or rather unable to 

 move. 



Nux vomica, jjc. — When the region of the liver externally is 

 hard and swollen; horse refuses all food; when symptoms are 

 aggravated, early in the morning; constipation with frequent un- 

 successful urging and straining to effect a stool. 



Leptandra Virginica, ix. — The principal indication for the 

 selection of this drug is the condition of the stool; when this is 

 frequent, urgent, black, tarry in consistence and color, pappy and 

 smells badly, resort should be had thereto. 



When convalescence is attained Sulphur jo and China i-> may be 

 u.sed with advantage as suggested under simple fever, and the in- 

 structions under that heading as to diet, et cetra, should be 

 followed. 



STRANGLES. 



This malad}' is more particularly associated with young horses, 

 and in our experience it has proved communicable from one young 

 horse to another; at the same time the disease is not restricted to 

 adolescence, as horses of all ages are liable thereto; but while 

 adult horses do not appear so likely to be infected by association 

 with one of their own period of life that is the subject of strangles, 

 young horses, until they attain the age of four years, are more 

 readily infected from an aged horse than by one of their own 

 years; at least this is our experience; and it is well known that as 

 is the case in most infantile diseases, one attack does not protect a 

 horse from a second or third, although in the majority of horses 

 one attack in a lifetime suffices, while a few seem to escape en- 

 tirely. Strangles is much more likely to prove infectious in a 



