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appeared as laminitis; disease of the lungs is, perhaps, its favorite type. 
Bowel complaints are apt to imitate each other; blowing generally com- 
mences such disorders. But when influenza is prevalent, let the body’s 
strength and the yellowness or redness of the membranes be always 
looked to before any more prominent indication is particularly observed. 
The other symptoms—which, however, are very uncertain, as regards 
any of them being present or absent—are pendulous head, short breath, 
inflamed membranes, swollen lips, dry mouth, enlarged eyelids, copious 
tears, sore throat, tucked up flanks, compressed tail, filled legs, big 
joints, lameness and hot feet. Auscultation may detect a grating sound 
at the chest, or a noise like brickbats falling down stairs at the wind- 
pipe; whenever this last peculiarity is audible there is a copious nasal 
discharge. Sometimes one foot is acutely painful, and, notwithstand- 
ing the weakness, the leg is held in the air. Purgation has been wit- 
nessed, although constipation usually prevails, and the animal generally 
stands during the continuance of the disorder. 
Move the horse slowly to a well-littered, loose box; mind the door 
CONFIRMED INFLUENZA. 
does not open to the north or to the east. No food will be eaten; but 
suspend a pail of well-made gruel within easy reach of the animal’s 
head. Let the gruel be changed or the receptacle replenished at stated 
periods, thrice daily; sprinkle one scruple of calomel upon the tongue 
and wash it down with a drink composed of sulphuric either, one ounce; 
laudanum, one ounce; water, half a pint; do this night and morning. 
Should the weakness be excessive, double the quantity of ether and of 
laudanum contained in the draughts. Watch the pulse—it always is 
feeble, but at first has a wiry feeling. So soon as the character of the 
pulse changes or the wiry sensation departs, which generally happens 
when the nasal discharge becomes copious and cough appears, one pot 
