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AND CARE. Pay particular attention to the diet. Feed bran mashes, 

 scalded oats, linseed gruel, and grass if in season. If constipation ap- 

 pears, relieve the animal by injections (enemas) of warm water into the 

 rectum, three or four times a day. But under no circumstances give 

 phj'sic. 



To simple cases the above is all that is necessary, but if appetite is 

 gone and the animal appears dull, give three times a day three ounces 

 of the solution of acetate of ammonia and two drams of powdered chlor- 

 ate of potash, diluted with a pint of water. 



When the inflammatory symptoms subside and the appetite does not . 

 return give two ounces each of the tincture of gentian and spirits of 

 nitrous ether in a pint of water as a drench, every night and morning for 

 several days. If after ten days the discharge continues, give one dram 

 of powdered sulphate of iron three times a day. 



Chronic Catarfh. This is an inflammation of some part of the 

 membrane affected by a common cold which has become persistent. 

 The sinuses of the head are the usual seats of the trouble, and it is mani- 

 fested by a more or less continuous discharge of a thick, white or 

 yellowish-white matter from one or both nostrils. 



Symptoms. The long-continued discharge just mentioned will in- 

 variably indicate the disease. Exercise great caution in examining 

 these cases to distinguish them from glanders. This disease is neither 

 dangerous nor contagious, although at times it is difficult to cure. The 

 discharge may be irregular, quite large quantities being discharged at 

 times, while at others scarcely any. 



Treatment. The animal should have nutritive food and regular 

 light exercise. The food should be placed in a box on the ground, and 

 the hay where the head must be lowered to eat it. For eight days give 

 one of the following powders night and morning; sulphate of iron, three 

 ounces; powdered nux vomica, one ounce; mix and make into sixteen 

 powders. Then for the next eight days, give night and morning one of 

 the following: sulphate of copper, four ounces; powdered gentian, six 

 ounces; mix and divide into sixteen powders. After this give one dram 

 of iodide of potassium dissolved in a pail of drinking water, one hour 

 before each meal. A blister over the face is often of much benefit. 

 The ordinary fly blister plaster of the drug store mixed with one-third 

 its weight of lard is very efficient. As a disinfectant sprinkle 

 chloride of lime about the stall, and a small quantity may be placed in 

 the manger under the hay. 



