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To assist the evacuation and ease the pain give injections of linseed tea, 

 one quart, to which an ounce of laudanum is added. Get up a good sweat 

 if possible. This will relieve the kidneys. Keep the bowels gently open 

 with laxatives and relieve the pains with anodynes, and as the animal im- 

 proves, give bitter tonics, 3 ounces of Peruvian bark daily in three doses ; 

 •r an ounce of gentian in two drachm doses three times a day. 



rv. Profuse Staling, or Diabetes. 



This disease, called by various names, as diuresis, diabetes insipidus, 

 poluria, etc., is simply an excessive secretion of urine, causing loss of 

 flesh, weakness, and at length terminating in exhaustion and a general 

 breaking down of the system. 



Causes. — The most common cause is dosing with quack medicines, a 

 favorite pastime of ignorant stablemen, especially for "the water." It is 

 also produced by musty hay and grain, new oats, distillery slops, acid 

 diuretic plants, or any cause irritating the stomach and at the same time 

 stimulating the kidneys. 



How to know it. — There is excessive thirst, profuse and frequent 

 staling, of pale colored urine, thin, and with little odor ; loss of condition 

 and spirits ; the appetite fails ; the skin is hard and dry ; the hair harsh • 

 the pulse will be weak, whether fast or slow ; depraved appetite for lick- 

 ing noxious substances. 



What to do. — Change the food at once, well seasoned hay and grain, 

 with linseed tea given freely in the drink. The horse must not suffer 

 from thirst, but inordinate drinking should not be allowed. Iodine is 

 one of the chief specifics in this disease. The following will be a good 

 formula, to be given three times a day in water : 



No. 121. 20 Grains iodine, 



1 Drachm iodide of potassium, 

 4 Drachms carbonate of soda. 

 Mix, and give in water. 



Or, give daily the following : 



No 126. 2 Drachms phosphate of iron, 



2 Drachms iodide of potassium, 

 4 Drachma Peruvian bark. 

 Mix, and give once a day in water. 



If this does not soon show a disposition to check the disease, add 15 to 

 20 grains of creosote daily. 



Another good formula, to be given once a day, or in bad cases twice 

 daily, is the following : 



