836 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



No. 75. 1 Drachm aloes, 



1 Drachm squills, 

 '2 Drachms gum ammoniacum. 



Mix into a ball with meal and give once a day in the morning. If the 

 cough is irritable and easily excited, and the bowels natural, omit the 

 aloes and substitute for it one drachm of opium. 



For a cold settled in the chest, with cough, give every morning th« 

 following : 



No. 76. 1 Drachm ipecac, 



1 Drachm liquorice powder, 

 >i Ounce nitrate of ammonia. 



Add tar, the size of a hazel-nut and mix with molasses to form a ball. 

 AH coughs resulting from indigestion or worms, and some of those 

 resulting from irritation of the passages of the throat, are often cured 

 by turning the horse out in Summer where he may have free range on the 

 prairie, where resin weed grows plentifully. A long standing cough, 

 however, requires time, and the operator must use judgment in adminiS'^ 

 tering medicine. If he be a veterinary surgeon he will make up his mind 

 from various symptoms. The farmer should endeavor carefully to do 

 the same. 



X. Malignant Epidemic. 



Under this head the older veterinarians were accustomed to term 

 several diseases that sweeping over a country became unusuall}'^ prevalent 

 or fatal. Thus Dr. Layard and Ohmer long ago wrote of malignant 

 epidemic, probably a severe form of catarrhal fever, or epidemic catarrh, 

 and also known as influenza distemper, malignant epidemic, murrain, 

 pest, etc. 



Youatt describes a malignant disease occurring in 1714 in England, 

 imported from the continent and destroying in the course of a few months 

 70,000 horses and cattle. Professor Bruquon, of Turin, says of this 

 disease, that it commenced with loss of appetite, staring coat, a wild and 

 wandering look, and a staggering from t]ie very commencement. The 

 horse would (-ontinually lie down and get up again, as if tormented hy 

 colic ; and he gazed alternately at both flanks. In moments of compar* 

 ative ease there were universal twitchings of the skin and spasms of tha 

 limbs. The temperature of the ears and feet was variable. If there 

 happened to be about the animal any old wound or scar from setoning or 

 firing, it opened afresh and discharged a quantity of thick and black 

 blood. Very shortly afterward the flanks, which were quiet before, begap 

 to heave, the nostrils were dilated, the head extended for breath. The 



