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Mix in a pint of cold water, shake well and give as a drench. 

 Olve a drench every two or three hours until he seems relieved- 

 If the animal is very weak, instead of this, it is best to give 



Whiflky 1 wine glass fulL 



Ale or Beer i pint. 



Give every three hours until he seems relieved, then proceed 



with the following : 



Saltpetre or Nitrate of Potash J pound. 



Tartar Emetio J pound. 



Ground Gentian Root i pound. 



Mix thoroughly and give a teaspoonful three times a day. 

 Feed soft feed with a little boiled flax seed to keep the bowels 

 free, give cold water in small quantities, but often, which will 

 have a good effect on the throat; apply mustard or hot cloths 

 wrung out of hot water to the chest, clothe the body well, accord- 

 ing to the season of the year, and see that the animal has pure air 

 to breathe without being in a draft. In all lung diseases be care- 

 ful in drenching so as not to choke the animal. 



BROKEN WIND OR HEATES. 



It is similar to asthma in man. 



CilUSCS. — It is generally seen in horses that are ravenous feeders 

 and overload the stomach and are inclined to carry a large belly. 

 This affects the stomach, and the same nerve that helps to supply 

 the stomach with nerve power also helps to supply the lungs; 

 this is how we account for it affecting the lungs when the 

 stomach is affected. The kinds of '^ood that are apt to produce it 

 are inferior foods, such as musty hay (clover hay being the worst), 

 or musty oats, or it may be caused from a neglected cold. This 

 disease is rarely found in cavalry horses as they are fed on the 

 very best of food. 



Symptoms. — This disease is easily detected when it is well 

 established. There is a peculiar way of breathing, a long 

 Inspiration followed by ^ short expiration and a jerking motion at 

 the flank ; the nostrils are enlarged and the muscles of che belly 

 come into play greatly in this disease. On a damp, hot, sultry 

 day the symptoms are greatly increased, and may become very 

 alarming, and you might be led to think that the animal was 

 •uffering from inflammation of the lungs ; but wheti you examine 

 the pulse you will find it beating about natural. In heaves 

 there is a loud, hacking, painful, internal cough which feem."; 

 to come from the lung^s ; this is noticed more alter eating: o> 



