164 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



Heaves disappear by feeding prairie hay or grass, because 

 it is so coarse the horse cannot gorge the stomach with it. 

 Hence there is improvement by feeding corn stalks or fod- 

 der, as they contain more saccharine matter and do not 

 engorge the stomach. I have given the tincture of rosin 

 weed, which is claimed to be the curative principle of 

 prairie hay, without satisfactory results, and can produce 

 equally satisfactory results by other treatment that is claimed 

 for that of feeding prairie hay. 



First give one of the following balls: Ginger, powdered, 

 y? oz.; capsicum, % oz - Form a ball. This ball to be 

 given three nights in succession; then omit two or three 

 nights, and one or two balls may be given again in succes- 

 sion. The horse should have regular exercise, be watered 

 often, (small quantities at a time,) and have straw instead 

 of hay to eat, (corn fodder would be much better.) Under 

 this treatment heaves will disappear, 



FAVORITE REMEDIES FOR HEAVES. 



1. Spanish brown, 2 oz.; tartar emetic, 2 oz.; resin, 4 oz.; 

 ginger, 2 oz. Mix and give two teaspoonfuls twice a day 

 in the feed. 



2. Vegetable tar, in mass, ^ oz.; gum camphor, ^ oz.; 

 tartar emetic, i dram. Form into a ball, one of which is 

 to be given once a day. 



3. Take indigo, i oz.; 'saltpeter, i oz.; rain water, i gal- 

 lon ; mix and give a pint twice a day in the feed. 



I could include a great many pretended "sure cures " for 

 heaves. I have used in my practice almost everything for 

 this purpose, comprising sulphuric acid and corrosive sub- 

 limate, etc., as experiments, and find them comparatively 

 or wholly worthless. If the horse shows heaves after a 

 severe cold or inflammation of the lungs, there will be 

 wheezing from a filling of the air passages with mucus. 

 Hence gentle exercise, stimulating medicine to the air pas- 

 sages and lungs, and condensing the food, will give relief, 

 since the lungs are thereby stimulated and freed from 

 mucus, as well as giving freedom to act, and there is, in 

 consequence, relief. 



You will find the above treatment to work splendidly in 

 most cases. They will give relief in all cases with proper 

 attention to feeding, and will in many cases possibly make 

 a cure. 



