202 TYPHUS FEVER. [BOOK II. 



If the heat return at intervals, as usually happens 

 towards nightfall, give 



A Cooling Decoction. 



Linseed, 2 quarts. 



Coarse sugar, 2 ounces. 



Water boiling hot, 6 quarts, poured upon 

 the seed. Let it simmer three or four hours, and 

 pour off the liquid for use when nearly cold. The 

 linseed will bear another water, less in quantity ; 

 but some horses will take the seeds also, which 

 may be permitted. Give the whole in the course 

 of the day, at two or three intervals, and repeat the 

 same decoction once or twice more. 



TYPHUS, OR PUTRID FEVER, 



Is caused by long-continued debility, or slow fever, 

 as much as by the injudicious use of medicines 

 administered for the cure thereof. Of these, the 

 most common error consists of cordial medicines, 

 diapente, wines, &c. ; which, as they give a short- 

 lived vigour to the animal, are supposed to have 

 ck)ne some good, and are, therefore, persisted in, 

 until the digestive and secreting parts of the system 

 are spoiled. — See book i. page 74, &c. Typhus is 

 also communicable towards its termination — to man 

 as well as beast ; therefore is it but a reasonable 

 precaution to adopt the disinfecting process, as in 

 cases of epidemy, mentioned just below at page 

 208, and detailed more at large under the article 

 " Glanders," in chap. iii. of this book. 

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