OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 67 



The treatment should follow along the line of a tonic for 

 the nerves. 



Best tonic arsenic 



Best stimulant strychnine 



Best sedative lobelia 



Bear in mind that the horse will eat anything — in fact is in- 

 clined to be gluttonous. Therefore give his medicine in powders. 

 In order to insure that the horse gets the powder, put a 

 double handful of bran in with the oats, dampen it, and mix 

 well. This is the only medicine the horse will require. 



Arsenic 2 drams 



Lobel. sem. pulv 8 ounces 



Nux Vomica 4 ounces 



Gentian Ed 4 ounces 



Charcoal 1 ounce 



Ft. 60 powders — these will last a month. 



M. Sig. — 1 powder night and morning in the feed. 



Hygiene. — Regulate feed. Give horse a change of hay — 

 limit the amount to 10-14 lbs. a day. After he has eaten up his 

 hay put on a muzzle. This is absolutely indispensable. It is a 

 good plan to divide the feed into 2 feeds. If the horse is on the 

 track, take him away and let him rest a month — this gives the 

 air cells time to rest. Give the same amount of grain as usual. 

 The stomach in this case is distended from bulky food, and not 

 from the grain. There is a lot of virtue in bran — not from its 

 nutritive qualities but from its indigestibility. 



In 3 or 4 weeks the cough will disappear if the hygiene is 

 regarded. After having one attack, the horse is predisposed to 

 another. This hygiene must be carried out as long as he lives. 



Three points I wish to emphasize. 



1. That the nature of case is neurosis starting in the 



stomach and we must treat the pneumogastric. 



2. Give a sedative, then a tonic. 



3. Then comes the muzzle. Do not forget the hy- 



giene. 



Don't imagine that rapid breathing indicates thoracic trouble, 



and that breathing 30 times a minute and dilated nostrils are 



diagnostic of acute bronchitis. Do not diagnose a case from the 



first symptoms or one symptom. In incipient heaves you have 



