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denly taking cold, if they cannot be walked 

 about, their nofes muft be covered to hinder the 

 fir ft fudden ingrefs of the cold air -, their tails 

 ftiould aifo be turned towards the wind, to pre- 

 vent its affecting the pituitary membrane, and 

 alfo care mould be taken that the delicate tex- 

 ture of this membrane, fo expofed to the imme- 

 diate contact of the air and w r ind, may not have 

 too fudden a change from heat to cold. 



But if a horfe has been affected in the glands 

 for a confiderable time, and has had a dis- 

 charge from the obftructed fide without 

 coughing, the glanders is confirmed even tho* 

 he has a good appetite, and every other fign of 

 health. Emollient decoctions muft be thrown 

 up the noftrils, being careful to pufh them to 

 the frontal finufes, and to repeat them three times 

 a day for a week -, if the running continues, it 

 will be very proper to ufe fumigations, which 

 would come more into practice, if their good 

 effects were better known. 



To fumigate is to make a horfe receive the 

 vapour or fmoke of certain medicines thrown 

 into the fire or upon a red-hot iron. And this 

 fumigation produces different effects, according 

 to the different compofition made ufe of. 



For this purpofe I thought of a kind of box 

 with a tube fixed to it, which may be put into 

 the noftril of the horfe ; this box has the ad- 

 vantage qî conveying the vapour as intended, 



which 



