THE HORSE—THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 109 
INFLAMMATION OF THE PHARYNX.—PHARYNGITIS. 
This affection is caused by exposure to wet and cold, and by impure: 
air and hot temperature. 
Symptoms.—Sore throat, sometimes difficult breathing and swollen 
glands of the neck. It has indications similar to sore throat and inflamma- 
tion of the larynx. 
TREATMENT.—Give iodide of mercury and belladonna in alternation 
every one or two hours. Steam the throat as for Strangles. Keep the ani- 
mal warm with suitable clothing. If the legs are cold, bandage them. 
Pack the throat, a piece of sheep-skin, with the wool, being suitable for this. 
purpose. Give bran-mashes, and keep the bowels open. 
CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS. 
Congestion of the lungs is a gorging of the lungs with blood, and is. 
caused by general weakness, which prevents the action of the heart that is. 
requisite to the full purification of the blood and circulation; by a long day’s 
hard work; by undue riding or driving, especially with a following expos- 
ure to wet and cold; by long runs. It is always present in the beginning: 
of pneumonia. 
Symptoms.—tlf the disorder occurs in the field, the horse suddenly 
stops, with anxious or distressed look; hanging head; expanded, puffed-out,, 
A FREQUENT POSITION IN CONGESTION. 
purple nostrils; protruding, blood-shot eyes; hurried, labored breathing, 
going up to eighty or one hundred a minute; panting flanks; small pulse, 
reaching to eighty or one hundred a minute at the bronchial artery; feeble, 
disturbed heart, without the rattle incident to lung-inflammation. When. 
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