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VETEBINAKY MEDICINE AND SURGEEY. 



Mix. 



Chloride of Ammonium § ij. 



Camphor 3J. 



Molasses 3 xx. 



A tablespoonful occasionally to horses with a cough.. 



^n very bad cases, tlie swelling of the parotid glands and that of the 

 lining membrane of the upper end of the windpipe are sometimes so 

 great as to cause imminent danger of suffocation. Eelief must then be 

 sought by tracheotomy. If abscesses form and point internally, they 

 may require to be laid open with the lancet. 



The accompanying fever is best treated by one or two ounces of sweet 

 spirits of nitre in the water or in the mash. The bowels must be kept 

 open by the use of laxative food, or, if need be, by injections of warm 

 water (100° F.), using the instrument here figured in preference to a Sy- 



ria. 64. 

 Gamgee's funnel for enemas. 



ringe. (Fig. 64.) In all cases, throughout the attack, the animal's head 

 should be left entirely free from restraint. 



This disease is always succeeded by great prostration of strength; and 

 in order to prevent this as much as possible, milk — in conjunction with 

 eggs beaten up, or boiled hard and powdered — should be allowed the 

 animal to drink, alternately with water, gruel, or linseed tea. But none 

 of these should upon any consideration be forced upon it by horning or 



