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Tf this condition be immediately attended to, it will disappear almost 
as quickly as it was exhibited. Take two ounces each of sulphuric ether 
and of laudanum; cold water, one pint. Give this drink with caution, 
as the animal to which it is administered is not conscious. Have pa- 
tience with sickness, and the whole will be swallowed; or the fumes will 
be inhaled and do almost as much good as the imbibition of the fluid. 
The drink being given, do not leave the stable. Wait by the side of 
the horse, watching the effect of the draught. If in ten minutes the 
horse has not perfectly recovered, or be but partially restored, let another 
similar portion be poured into the body. More will seldom be required; 
but, notwithstanding, watch for twenty minutes after the last drink, as 
such fits occasionally vanish and reappear. 
The rack and the manger must be emptied. Gruel is all we dare at 
present trust within reach of an exhausted frame. Though the animal 
would eat, solid food must be withheld. The body should be lightly, 
but well clothed; and a pail of gruel should be suspended from the 
manger, so that a heavy head need not be raised high to partake of it. 
The next day the creature, thus treated, may return to its customary 
food and be as well as ever; but when the animal reached home, should 
the groom have been in a hurry, if company should have been waiting 
for dinner, and the horse should be hastily turned into the stall by the 
only servant kept by gentility; then the congestion is unseen, and any 
disease may follow it. This condition used to be, as fainting in the 
human being once was, treated by the abstraction of blood. But to 
bleed a debilitated horse, is to increase the cause of the affection, which 
it should be the province of physic to destroy. By the stimulant, which 
leaves behind no inflammatory tendency; by the subtle distillation, which 
speedily traverses the frame, we revive the system and awaken lagging 
nature once more to vital activity. 
When congestion is not noticed in the first instance, and has time to 
become confirmed, the original disorder is invariably swallowed up in 
some greater evil. Pneumonia and pleurisy are the favorite shapes 
which it assumes; but it has terminated in fatal enteritis. 
BRONCHITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE AIR-PASSAGES. 
This serious affection is, mostly, the consequence of man’s neglect. 
The master rides far and fast. He dismounts at some pleasant threshold 
and remains long under the roof. During that time the horse stands 
outside, either shivering in the cold or pelted by the storm. The gen- 
eral treatment seems to say, that life and machinery, being equally sub- 
servient to man’s will, are, in fact, the same things in man’s regard. 
