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states, it " is accompanied with chilliness, lassitude, sluggishness 

 and prostration; loss of appetite; and profuse sweating and urina- 

 tion. ' ' 



Arsenicum album 3X or A rseniann iodide T^yi. — Both these reme- 

 dies are useful when the discharge from the nose and eyes is thin, 

 watery and burning, accompanied by rawness of the throat and a 

 cough arising therefrom; one of the best indications for the use 

 •of either of these remedies, more especiall}^ the former, is a con- 

 stant desire to drink, but only a little at a time; this symptom 

 may be taken as a leading indication for these two remedies. 



Belladonna 3X. — When the lining membrane of the ej-es is very 

 much swollen and injected with streaks of red; when light ap- 

 pears to cause discomfort; when the throat is so sore that there is 

 a difficulty in swallowing. 



Nux vomica 3X. — Very frequently an excellent remedy for cold 

 in the head, especially when the nostrils are stopped up and the 

 bowels are constipated. 



As accessories to the above it is frequently useful to cause the 

 horse to inhale hot steam, medicated with Aconite or plain vine- 

 gar; fill a nose bag with hay chaff, put it on to the horse's head; 

 introduce a few" drops of Aconite t* or a quarter pint of vinegar; 

 then pour two quarts of boiling water on the chaff and allow the 

 animal to inhale the steam for five or ten minutes; this may be 

 repeated three times a day. 



Food should consist of warm mashes, linseed gruel and barley 

 water ad libitum. 



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This term is applied to a chronic catarrh of the nose, which as 

 a rule, in consequence of neglect or bad management has taken on 

 a purulent form; in the horse nasal gleet assumes a more serious 

 aspect by reason of the large cavities or sinuses, as they are called, 

 w^hich occupy and help to form the face of this animal; into these 

 cavities there are small openings about the size of a quill pen, 

 which connect the nostrils therewith; the membrane which lines 

 the nostrils is continued through these small openings and again 

 expands over the inner surface of the cavities, so that a diseased 

 condition of the nostrils easily extends to the inside of these cavi- 

 ties; and if the catarrh of the nostrils is not cured, but becomes 



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