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thorough outlet. Sometimes the inflammation is so deep as 

 to cause serious soreness and swelling of the throat. In this 

 case the horse must be nursed carefully by feeding with 



Opening the Abscess in Distemper. 



warm gruel; the drink should be warm; grass or anything 

 that will tempt the appetite should be given. Simpler 

 treatment would be rubbing on the enlargement an ordinary 

 fly-blister, to bring the enlargement to a head. Physic must 

 not be given. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 



This disease is generally caused by constipation of the 

 bowels, hard driving, over-purging or looseness of bowels, 

 or drinking cold water when warm. Constipation is, how- 

 ever, the principal cause of the disease, and when this is 

 the case, the first and most important condition of relief is 

 to get an action of the bowels. 



Symptoms. For the .first 

 few hours the horse is uneasy, 

 paws, looks around at the side, 

 the pulse is slightly accelerated 

 and wiry. As the disease ad- 

 vances the intermissions be- 

 tween the attack become less, 

 pulse quicker, running from 



Symptoms of Intestinal and Abdomi- seventy to eighty beats in a 



Inflam - minute, in some instances even 



