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then two hours after the last powder give 1 ounce of aloes. Let 

 the horse have plenty of water, but nothing to eat. Twenty 

 hours after giving the ball let him have soft feed and hay. When 

 the purgation ceases give alterative doses of magnesia sulphate, 

 or soda sulphate, night and morning for two weeks and then start 

 in on quinine and nitro-muriatic acid with nux vomica. 



Quinine Sulphate 2^^ drams 



Ac. Nitro-Mur 1 dram 



Aqua q. s 1 pint 



M. Sig. — Give 1 ounce two or three times a day 



one-half hour before feeding, with the object of 



dissolving any biliary calculi. 



Do something for the itching. Acetic acid dilute (1 ounce) 

 to a pint of water will make a good lotion. When applying, 

 leave wet. In hot weather put on a sheet; in cold, a blanket. 

 Tie the animal so that he cannot rub. The absorption of the bile 

 into the blood poisons it and causes the itching. 



In case sheep suffer from flukes, change to a higher better 

 drained pasture. 



Spleen, 



The spleen is subject to the various organic changes which 

 take place in other tissues, such as congestion, inflammation, 

 atrophy, hypertrophy, thrombosis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, mela- 

 nosis, etc. The symptom^ of disease of the spleen are negative. 



Case of Lymphadcnoma in a Horse. — The case was a draft 

 stallion weighing 2,200 pounds, aged 5 years. He was sold in 

 February and began serving in April and did good service up to 

 June. The animal began getting languid and listless and in a 

 month's time would not serve at all. He got cross and irritable, 

 lazy, and emaciation set in. He ran down rapidly. He died the 

 last of July a mere skeleton. The post mortem revealed a spleen 

 weighing about 60 pounds. The organ was 6 inches thick and 

 the surface was studded with numerous little tumors which ap- 

 peared to be fibrous tissue. The horse was sold as a sound ani- 

 mal ; suit was instigated to recover, but the owner lost. 



