THE HORSE, ITS DISEASES. 389 



If there is a full, strong pulse, and increased size of the heart, add to 

 the digitalis 20 drops tincture of aconite, twice a day, or drop it into the 

 water given twice a day. If there is general debility, the following will 

 be indicated, to be given twice a day for several weeks ; 



No. 140 Yt Drachm powdered nux vomica, 



1 Drachm extract of belladonna. 



Form into a ball with liquorice powder and molasses, and give. 



II. Scrofiila. 



The horse is not subject to scrofula, as is man, and the lower farm 

 animals. Swine are essentially scrofulous ; sheep are often so ; cattle 

 more rarely, and horses least of all. Yet that this noble animal has the 

 germs of this dread disease in his system, would seem to be indicated by 

 ulcers on the liver, tumors in the glands, and tubercles of the lungs. 

 Thus it may be found in connection with other diseases, or show itself in 

 eruptive skin, or of the organs. 



What to do. — Stramonium, known to farmers as Jamestown or Jimson 

 weed, is a specific. Give every other day half an ounce of the dried 

 seed, bruised, or 20 to 30 grains of the stramonium of the druggists, 

 daily. The ox may have from 1-2 to 1 drachm ; sheep 5 to 10 grains, 

 and swine 4 to 6 grains daily, the state of the bowels being carefully 

 attended to by giving laxative food if costive, ^r if necessity occur, med- 

 icine, Glauber salts in light doses. 



III. Fever, or General Inflainmation. 



When from any cause injury is done to any part of the frame, or in, 

 flammatory action is set up either in the tissues, membranes, or any of 

 the organs of the body, heat is produced, and this is fever. This often 

 becomes general from sympathy, thus in a measure relieving the pressure 

 on the more closely affected parts. Fever is not the disease itself, but 

 the result of disorganization, a symptom of disease, or internal disorder. 

 In fact, a symptom of disease arising from sympathy of the system with 

 disease of the animal economy. Remove the cause and the fever will 

 eease. We may do something to alleviate it in connection with the treat- 

 fnent of the disease itself, but we must not lose siffht of the latter. 



In intermittent fevers there is a cold stage, a hot stage and a sweating 

 stage. These may vary in succession and degree, but the real difficulty 

 is in a morbid state of the viscera, but particularly of the liver and 

 organs employed in the formation of bile, and of the mesentery. In 

 fevers the tongue is coated. Yet no quack is so ignorant as to suppose 



