530 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



donna in half-drachm doses should be given four or five times a day. 

 If it cannot be given otherwise, place it up in the cheek, when he 

 will suck it up. 



He must be kept perfectly quiet, and the box cool and dark, no 

 one being allowed to go near him but the attendants, and they 

 must go about him noiselessly. A newly flayed sheep-skin should be 

 laid over the loins, and well covered up to excite perspiration. , 

 Very high authorities claim that blisters and other irritating treat- 

 ment must be avoided. He must be treated as in a nervous fever, 

 while average good authorities advise having the spine rubbed well 

 with a strong liniment, such as one part aqua ammonia, two parts 

 sweet-oil ; to be repeated daily until the back becomes sore. He 

 should be allowed all the nutriment he will take ; and when he can- 

 not eat, sloppy drinks of linseed tea, barley water, well-boiled oat- 

 meal gruel, etc., should be frequently placed within his reach. 



, It may run its course in four or five days, or it may continue 

 for one or two weeks. It very often proves fatal. 



Dr. Mc Beth-, of this city, who has had excellent success in the 

 management of this disease, informs the writer that he has recently 

 had two very severe cases, both idiopathic. , The worst, owned by 

 W. Mi Merritt, of this city, had run four days, with jaws entirely 

 fixed, before being called. His treatment is, first sharp cathartic", 

 aloes, with enemas to encourage action of the bowels, with half- 

 drachm doses of belladonna, in some cases even more ; in this case, 

 being a very desperate one, he gave drachm doses of solid extract, 

 every three to four hours, with counter irritation over the spine, 

 and generous nourishment as described. 



He of course found great difficulty in givingithe medicine, being 

 compelled to push the aloes up into the mouth with a piece of stick, 

 until a sufficient amount was taken up to produce a free action of 

 the bowels. 



Stringhalt. 



This is a peculiar jerking or pulling up of the hind legs when 

 walking or trotting, familiar to every one. It is most severe during 

 cold weather when the horse is led out of the stable, also after a 

 i hard drive, and is much better when driven and warmed up. Many 

 ' horses that have but a slight touch of it may move off showing so 

 little evidence of it as to escape notice. If suspected, back the horse 

 up hill, especially after standing awhile, or when cool, and he will 

 show it most clearly. 



It is claimed that s colts suffering from worms, and horses suffer- 



