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ries. A slight discharge of glairy mucus now commenced runniug 
from both nostrils; the scarlet spots had become more diffused, and 
of a brighter tint; the appetite had returned, and a few oats and 
a amall quantity of hay were occasionally allowed, which were 
eaten. The limbs were hand-rubbed often, and the body waa 
clothed with warm blankets. This treatment was followed up for 
a period of five days, at the end of which time he had improved 
very much, yet the limbs were considerably swollen. 
On the tenth day I commenced to give four ounces of fluid ex- 
tract of resin-weed per day, with an occasional dose of fluid extract 
of golden seal, under which treatment he convalesced very rapidly, 
so that on the sixteenth day all medicine was discontinued. I now 
turned the animal into a small inclosure, where he seemed to taka 
pleasure in rolling and exercising himself, which had the effect 
of reducing the dropsical swelling of the limbs, and on the fourth 
of December the patient was sent home—not exactly to go to work, 
but to receive care and attention until he had recovered from the 
effects of the disease, and had gained his ordinary strength. 
It is very difficult to say to what extent scarlet fever among 
horses prevails in the United States; for very little, if any thing, 
has ever appeared in print of American origin, except that which 
has appeared from the pen of the author of this work. On the 
other side of the water, however, the disease is of frequent oc- 
currence, and is well understood. The first account of it published 
in England was from the pen of Mr. PERcIVALL, in the year 1848, 
who says that “the existence of scarlet fever has received such 
confirmation from other quarters as to leave no doubt in my mind 
that, rare as the malady acknowledgedly is, and hitherto unde 
scribed as it has remained, it will one day find a place in our es- 
tablished veterinary nosology.” 
Since the above date, Surgeon Haycoock and several other 
writers have noticed the disease, treated it, and minutely described 
ita symptoms. They all agree that when the disease does make 
its appearance, it is usually the sequel of epidemic catarrh, or in- 
fluenza ; and this was probably the case regarding the patient the 
subject of this paper, for the owner informed me that the animal 
had previously shown symptoms of distemper. 
