520 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 
Other alterations are dependent entirely upon the complications. 
If the lungs have been affected, we find effusions identical in their 
intimate nature with those of simple pneumonia, but they differ 
somewhat in their general appearance in not being so circumscribed 
in their area of invasion. The alterations of meningitis and lami- 
nitis are identical with those of sporadic cases of founder and inflam- 
mation of the brain. 
Treatment.—While the appetite remains the patient should have a 
moderate quantity of sound hay, good oats, and bran; or even a little 
fresh clover, if obtainable, can be given in small quantities. It is 
not so important that a special diet shall be observed as that the 
horse shall eat a moderate quantity of nourishing feed, and he may 
be tempted with any feed of good quality that he relishes. He 
should be placed in a well-ventilated box stall away from other 
horses. Grass, roots, apples, and milk may be offered and, if relished, 
allowed freely. To reduce the temperature the safest simple plan 
is to inject large quantities of cold water into the rectum. Antipy- 
rene may be used with alcohol or strychnia. Derivatives in the form 
of essential oils and mustard poultices, baths of alcohol, turpentine, 
and hot water, after which the animal must be immediately dried and 
blanketed, serve to waken the animal from the stupor and relieve 
the congestion of the internal organs. This treatment is especially 
indicated when complication by congestion of the lungs, intestines, 
or of the brain is threatened. Quinin and salicylic acid in 1-dram 
doses will lower the temperature, but too continuous use of the for- 
mer in some cases increases the depression. Iodid of potash reduces 
the excessive nutrition of the congested organs and thereby reduces 
the temperature; again, this drug in moderate quantities is a stimu- 
lant to the digestive tract and acts as a diuretic, causing the elimina- 
tion of waste matter by the kidneys. Small doses of Glauber’s 
salt and bicarbonate of soda, used from the outset, stimulate the 
digestive tract and prevent constipation and its evil results. 
In cases of severe depression and weakness of the heart digitalis 
can be used with advantage. At the end of the fever, and when 
convalescence is established, alcohol in one-half pint doses and good 
ale in 1-pint doses may be given as stimulants. To these may be 
added 1-dram doses of turpentine. 
In complications of the intestines camphor and asafetida are most 
frequently used to relieve the pain causing the colics; diarrhea is 
also relieved by the use of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of potash, 
and drinks made from boiled rice or starch, to which may be added 
small doses of laudanum. 
In complication of the lungs iodid of potash and digitalis are 
most frequently indicated, in addition to the remedies used for the 
disease itself. 
