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. jecting the pellet it has masticated, while suffering under an attack of 
the last-mentioned disease. The two disorders, however, are distinct ; 
likewise the remedies for each are 
separate. The quidding, during lar- 
yngitis, springs from the act of de- 
glutition, obliging the sore and in- 
flamed larnyx to rise and press the 
pellet against the roof of the fauces. 
That act occasions much pain; hence 
the aversion to swallow solid sub- 
stances. Sore throat is, however, by 
no means the necessary accompani- 
ment of laryngitis. Neither are the bowels invariably confined during 
the disease. It has been known that the purgation existed in such 
energy as to require remedies. Consequently, no absolute plan of treat- 
ment can be laid down. However, depletion should be avoided to every 
extent which may be possible. The chronic form of the malady, conse- 
quent upon debility, is to be much dreaded. Effusion into the mem- 
brane, covering the rim of the larynx and its attendant roaring, is too 
frequently the result of that weakness which is produced by active 
measures. Among the lesser evils are cough, which not unfrequently 
proves but the precursor of more potent ills. Therefore, while laryngitis 
lasts, rather check the fever by gentle measures than resort to antimonials, 
niter, or the host of lowering agents. 
So soon as the case is observed, change the stable: the horse will do 
far better in the open air than in the foul atmosphere which originated 
and must aggravate the disorder. Rain, snow, or frost are more whole- 
some than the polluted warmth man’s most humble slave is too often 
doomed to inhale. The roofs of many stables are terribly low; in no 
building of this kind is the covering too high. The welfare of the horse 
seems always sacrified to the imaginary interests of its master. Thus, 
above the stable is built a loft for the hay and a residence for the groom. 
To save expense, the building is raised as small a distance from the 
ground as possible. The height of modern buildings would be by no 
means extravagant, were an entire stable of ordinary dimensions left free 
for a single quadruped to breathe in. A puerile parsimony, however, 
denies the huge lungs of the animal the only food life cannot do without, 
for even a short space. Disease and death consequently soon waste 
treble the money ample accommodation would not have consumed. 
Ignorance is the most expensive quality a proprietor of horse-flesh can 
indulge; for nature invariably refuses to be made subject to man’s 
A HORSE IN THE ACT OF QUIDDING. 
convenience. 
