TILE HORSB—THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 10% 
with mercurius. Mercurius is indicated by cough which is worse at night,, 
moist, and marked by slobbering; eyes and nose red; the nasal discharge 
thick and plentiful, though soreness continues in the throat and chest; 
breathing more frequent but not deep; mucous rattles in the windpipe and 
lower passages; glands swollen. A copious flow of mucus, loose cough, 
loud rattling and gurgling in the bronchial tubes, and distressed breathing 
call for antimonium tartaricum, Kali bichromicum is efficacious for tough,. 
ropy, sticky phlegm, for tongue covered with yellow fur, and for confirmed 
cases. Give arsenicum when marked weakness and poor appetite continue: 
after the foregoing remedies have reduced the active symptoms, and the- 
soft cough and nasal discharge progress. In the general care provide for 
the horse a large box, airy, but free from draughts, dirty bedding and other 
offensive matter; plenty of clean straw; comfortable clothing; rubbing of 
the legs night and morning with the hands, and bandages of flannel applied 
to them; bran-mashes, gruel, water (not very cold); when recovering, 
boiled oats, carrots, green food, turnips and malt-mashes. For costiveness. 
use back-raking and injections. Steaming the nose (see under Catarrh), 
is often useful. For great weakness and prostration at any stage, stimu- 
lants, such as aromatic or carbonate of ammonia, or wine, should be used. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LARYNX.—LARYNGITIS. 
In this the upper part of the windpipe is more seriously inflamed than 
in sore throat and cold, though it is usually attended by cold. Unless. 
checked it is liable to cause death by suffocation, or it may inflict permanent 
injury upon the larynx, disturbing the wind, or may terminate in chronic 
cough, pneumonia or bronchitis. Chronic laryn- 
gitis may result from the acute form, or may come 
gradually without previous severe inflammation, 
and has less violent symptoms. Its causes are 
the same as those of Bronchitis (which consult). 
Symptoms.—A rough, rasping, harsh sound 
at the top of the windpipe; short, hoarse, hard 
cough, usually convulsive, produced easily by 
pressing the top of the windpipe, the cough being \ 
so painful as to cause stamping or uneasy move- A 
ments about the stall; outside of throat hot, pain- Tastenie Be “cats SOUNDS 
ful and swollen; breathing short and difficult, 
being from fifteen to twenty per minute; pulse from sixty to seventy, hard, 
quick and full; mucous membrane swollen, perhaps tinged with bloods, 
swallowing difficult; the animal quids hay and sups water, the latter again. 
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