492 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



such as a little brandy and water or whisky and water. A gill or 

 two of liquor to be given as a drench ; or what is much better, 

 take carbonate of ammonia, from one to two drachms, powdered 

 ginger root, one to two drachms, made into a ball with honey 

 or molasses, and given twice a day. It should be remembered 

 that this treatment alone is intended only for the low stage 

 of the disease. When the pulse seems to rise to fifty or sixty 

 about the fifth or sixth day, the patient should then be treated as 

 for pleurisy, with fever medicine. Under the influence of the latter 

 treatment the pulse will recede and resume its natural number of 

 beats (forty). In this form of disease the hors,e Is extremely pros- 

 trated at first, the whole system being inactive. The pulse may run 

 up in time to seventy, or even eighty. 



The horse should be kept moderately warm, clothing thoroughly 

 the head, neck, and extremities ; he should have a comfortable, well- 

 ventilated stall ; open the bowels by enemas ; give tepid water to 

 drinki in which is a little nitrate of potash, as advised for pneumonia. 

 Nurse the horse with anything he will eat,^— a handful of wet hay, a 

 carrot or two, an apple or a potato, or anything of an alterative 

 nature. 



Be careful not to exercise tod soon. 



Bronchitis. 



Bronchitis, or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the 

 bronchial tubes, is often associated with inflammation of the lungs, 

 but also occurs as a separate affection. > 



Causes are similar to other pulmonary diseases. It is a result 

 of laryngitis or catarrh ; or it may depend on atmospheric influ- 

 ences, and in these cases it is always accompanied with great weak- 

 ness and prostration. 



Symptoms.— There is a short, dry, and husky cough, speedily 

 becoming more prolonged. When a horse gives a natural cough, 

 he opens his mouth a little ; but when laboring under this disease, 

 he keeps his mouth closed, trying to suppress the cough. As the 

 disease advances, the mouth becomes .hot and dry, the ears and ex- 

 tremities alternately hot and cold, the pulse not hard and wiry as in 

 pleurisy, but soft and compressible, and the respirations are quick 

 and hollow. If the ear be applied to the breast, a rattling sound 

 can easily be detected ; the bowels are inactive, and the appetite is 

 gone. Death may occur in from three to five days. 



Treatment the same as for laryngitis, explained on page 455 ; 

 counter-irritation to the throat, and if there is fever, «ive fever med- 



