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until, through it or a mash diet, the bowels become regular. Administer in- 

 ternally F. Ext. Belladonna in 80-drop doses every three hours. If the animai 

 be attacked with fever, discontinue Belladonna and substitute Tr. Aconite in 10- 

 drop doses every hour until eight doses have been given. If the animal be- 

 comes debilitated, a stimulant should be given in the form of whisky. Give 

 an ordinary whisky glass full as a dose. If the breathing becomes labored or 

 increased, apply the liniment which is to be used on the throat to both sides of 

 the chest. This should be done but once. Follow this with careful nursing and ^ 

 moderate exercise. 



XVI. Bleeding from the Nose. 



This often occurs from various injuries to the mucus membrane of the 

 nostrils, from hard pulling up hill, too tight a collar, and from other 

 causes, especially if the animal be full of blood. In these cases, the 

 bleeding is from one nostril and in drops, accompanied by sneezing. If 

 the bleeding comes from the lungs, it mil be bright red and frothy, and 

 there will be a cough. If from the stomach, it will be black, clotted ^ 

 sour and accompanied by retching. 



What to do. — In simple cases tie the head up as high as possible, blow 

 strong alum water from a tube into the nostril at each inspiration, and if 

 obstinate, plug the nostril with pledgets of tow. Give internally one 

 scruple of acetate of lead, to be followed in half an hour with another 

 if necessary. In the case of an ox, two scruples may be given at a dose. 



If both nostrils are involved, and the flow is continuous, only one nos* 

 tril must be stopped at a time, unless tracheotomy is performed, sinci 

 the horse cannot breathe through the mouth. The ox, however, can dt 

 80, and both nostrils may be plugged if necessary. See Tracheotomy, page 488^ 



XVII. Strangles. 



This is a disease but little known in America. Our distemper takes 

 its place. It is thus described in English works : It usually occurs in 

 young horses, highly-bred horses being more subject to it than cold 

 blooded ones. When the animal is "breeding strangles," there is a gen- 

 eral though slight indisposition. After a few days the neck becomes 

 etiff, the throat swells, the tumor being hard, hot and tender. A d:." 

 charge from the nose takes place, the throat becomes sore, the breathing 

 oppressed, the hair is staring, the appetite is gone, and the animal stands 

 with half -closed eyes. At length the tumor becomes ripe enough and is 

 opened, as is usual in distemper. It is more than probable that the dis- 

 ease is really the same, and that strangles and distemper are one and the- 

 same thing, only modified by conditions and climate. 



