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enlarged, swollen or hard and indurated, generally, however, one 

 or other is the case. 



The temperature of the body is no certain indication, but as a 

 rule the horse looks unthrifty in the coat, soon tires at work and 

 gives general evidence of impaired health. If the disease is al- 

 lowed to develop and the sinuses (or cavities) of the face become 

 blocked up with mucus or pus (matter) the shape of the face on 

 the affected side is altered, inasmuch as the bones bulge out. The 

 majority of veterinar}' practitioners considers that there is nothing 

 for it but the operation of trephining when the cavities of the face 

 are affected, as it is maintained that an accumulation of mucus 

 or pus must of necessity be removed and the cavities cleansed 

 before an}^ hope of cure can be held out; by trephining is to be 

 understood, a surgical operation involving the removal of a por- 

 tion of bone over one of the cavities of the face sufficiently large 

 to allow for the removal of the mucous or purulent contents; this 

 is by no means a serious operation, but it calls for the experienced 

 surgeon to perform it; although homoeopathic treatment suffices 

 to effect cures of the worst cases without resorting to trephining, 

 the operation in very extreme cases, \vhere the collection in 

 the cavities is purulent and the bones are also affected, 

 will facilitate and hasten the cure, as the diseased parts can be 

 flushed with a lotion of the remedy that is specific to the morbid 

 condition after the contents are evacuated, thus obviating the pos- 

 sibility of reinfection which the parts would be liable to, if the 

 process of absorption under the dN-namic influence of the drug 

 had to be carried on in the absence of an operation ; but the great 

 secret after all is by prompt internal administration of the .specific 

 drug to prevent the diseased process arriving at such an advanced 

 stage as we have indicated, and this can be dofie. 



Treatment. — The first reraed}' is Hydrastis 6, and its admin- 

 istration must be effected topically as "^vell as internally; if the 

 horse will put up with it, a lotion of Hydrastis 0, i to 5 of water, 

 must be injected with some force up the affected nostril; an 

 ordinary four-ounce metal syringe, with a wooden nozzle about 

 eight inches long adjusted thereto, is the best instrument for the 

 purpose; the head of the nozzle should be nicely rounded off to 

 prevent injuring the mucous membrane of the nose; after care- 

 fully testing the .soundness of the joints of the syringe, fill same 



