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labored and deep; perhaps dysentery or diarrhaea; frequent passage of 
wind; straining; dung chiefly mucus, tinged with blood; in fatal cases the 
horse walks around, knocks his head against objects about him; lies down;. 
tries to rise, but fails. The animal has pains in the abdomen, but does not 
roll and often rise as in colic. 
TREATMENT.—For the shivering, give aconite four times an hour, for 
one hour in five-drop doses, then lengthen the interval between doses. For 
the symptoms in general, give nux vomica every quarter or half-hour, ac- 
cording to the severity of the case. If the abdomen be not swollen and 
full of wind, give it once in two hours. If the swelling of the abdomen 
be great, and not relieved by nux vomica, give ammonium causticum or 
cocculus as long as the distension lasts, the dose being ten drops in a wine- 
glassful of water every twenty minutes. Arsenicum will be found useful 
when there are scouring of the bowels and a low state of the system; give 
one-hundredth of a grain, or three to five drops of Fowler’s Solution. 
MADNESS.—_RABIES.—HYDROPHOBIA. 
This is never spontaneous with the horse, but is always occasioned 
by the virus of madness, usually received from an infected dog, whether 
the dog bites the horse or licks a wound, or the horse in some way swal- 
lows the saliva of the dog. When a dog is around the stable showing the 
symptoms of madness (see under Madness in the Dog), the matter de- 
mands immediate notice. 
Symptoms. — Though the mr fain, 
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disease usually appears in about 
Faciac Expression IN HyproPruosia. VIOLENT SYMPTOMS IN HyDROPHOBIA. 
three days after the infection from a dog, the horse should be guarded and 
treated: for six weeks, if the disorder do not sooner occur. At first, among 
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