CHAP. I.] SORE THROAT — REMEDIES. 225 



accompanied by languid eyes, breathing quick and 

 laboriously, and general heat of the skin, without 

 perspiration. In some cases the sore throat is 

 substituted, in some measure, by enlargement of 

 the glands underneath the jowl, which are also 

 attended by soreness, more or less ; and, as this 

 species of attack is occasioned by the humidity of 

 a cold spring, or wet autumn, acting upon moulting 

 horses, great numbers feel its influence at once, and 

 gives reason for veterinary writers to consider this 

 general distemper as t( the influenza," and an 

 " epidemic." 



Remedy. — When the sub-maxillary glands swell, 

 as just mentioned, and there is no reason to doubt, 

 according to the corresponding symptoms, that it 

 is the effect of a cold — which may further be 

 ascertained by their heat and tension, let some dis- 

 cutient application be used — as camphorated spirits 

 of wine : but if the inflammation be to a great 

 degree, bran poultice may be applied to advantage. 

 If those enlarged glands already contain matter, the 

 tendency to irritation will thus be reduced ; if 

 merely sordid tumours, either application will effect 

 relief, by reducing the size and tenderness of the 

 part, so as the animal may take his medicines with 

 less difficulty. Steaming the head for an hour, or 

 applying hot flannels that have been steeped in 

 boiling water, will be found serviceable, taking care 

 to dry-rub the coat immediately after, which also 

 assists to reduce the swelling. If this symptom 

 does not give way before those applications, and 



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