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throats are very rarely, if ever, seen in animals exposed to all 

 weathers in the fields. Horses are specially prone to attacks 

 of laryngitis when first placed in stables, and especially when 

 transferred from a country house to the dealer's hot estab- 

 lishment. 



Symptoms. Hard dry cough, loss of appetite, thirst, but 

 difficulty in swallowing liquids or solids, and especially the 

 latter. Tenderness and swelling of the throat, redness of 

 the visible mucous membranes, frequent pulse, and quick 

 breathing. Sometimes there is much constitutional irritation. 

 As the disease advances the cough becomes less hard and less 

 frequent. A discharge not un frequently flows from the 

 nose, and there is an abundant secretion in the posterior part 

 of the mouth. Laryngitis may result in inflammation of the 

 bronchial tubes and lungs, in chronic cough and roaring. 



Treatment The animal must be kept on low diet, and 

 have some nitre thrown in the water allowed it to drink. I 

 disapprove of tormenting horses with balls in this disease, 

 and if a purgative can be dispensed with, injections may be 

 used with great benefit. I recommend the administration of 

 electuaries, which, in the first stage of the disease, should con- 

 tain salines and sedatives, and afterwards astringents. The 

 astringent electuaries are in many cases useful throughout 

 the attack. I commonly prescribe the following electuary : 

 Tfr Ammonise hydrochlor. . . Jij. 



Camphor se . . . 3J- 



Theriacse .... J xx - 

 Mix. A table-spoonful occasionally to horses with cough. 

 As an astringent, either of the following: 



I Acid, tannie. . . . 3j. 



Sp. vini gallica . . . Jij. 



Mellis iv. 



Mix. A dessert-spoonful twice daily. 



