116 . DISEASES OF THE HOESB. 



Booner. If, however, the case does not improve, and the 

 appetite is not good, give powdered carbonate of ammonia 

 and gentian root, each three drachms to a dose, morning, 

 noon and night, in addition to the tincture of nux vomica. 

 These medicines will have to be mixed with cold water, 

 and the horse drenched out of a strong-necked bottle or ox's 

 horn cut slanting at the mouth. Keep the ammonia in a 

 bottle tightly corked till it is used, as it loses its strength 

 by exposure to the air. Let the horse have as much cold 

 water to driak as he wants; and for this purpose a 

 bucketful should be kept before him. Pure air and good 

 ventilation should be insured to all sick horses. Green, or 

 soft feed should be given from the first day, if the horse 

 will eat it. Green feed all the time of sickness will be of 

 advantage, but oats will have to be given in addition, to 

 support the strength and vital powers of the system, to 

 enable him to throw oif the effects of the disease. Such, 

 then, is the manner of curing a disease which has destroyed 

 many horses, even when treated by men calling themselves 

 veterinary surgeons, or at least horse doctors. (See Influ- 

 enza and Rheumatism.) 



Glanders. — The following synopsis of a lecture deliv- 

 ered by Dr. McClure published in the Evemng Bulletin 

 will answer for the history and nature of the disease 

 called glanders. The treatment will be made more 

 plain for non-professional readers. 



Dr. Robert McClure, Veterinary Surgeon, delivered a 

 very interesting lecture at the Veterinary College. 

 BDs subject was "Glanders in Horses." He said : Glanders 

 is a disease dating from the time of Xenophon, or four 

 hundred years before Christ, and we are assured by Hippo- 

 crates, (ruler of the horse) that confirmed glanders was in- 

 curable, and that it was then known by the name Proflu' 



