478 ALPHABETICAL SUMMARY. 
Treatment.—Give no active medicine. Apply the steaming nose-hag 
six times daily; allow cut grass and mashes for food, with gruel for 
drink. If weak, present three feeds of crushed and scalded oats and 
beans daily, with a pot of stout morning and evening. Good nursing, 
with pure air, warmth, and not even exercise, till the disease abates, are 
of more importance than “doctor’s stuff” in a case of severe cold. Cold, 
however, often ushers in other and more dangerous diseases. 
CONGESTION IN THE FIELD. 
Cause.—Riding a horse after the hounds when out of condition. 
Symptoms.—The horse, from exhaustion, reels and falls. The body 
is clammy cold; the breathing is labored; every vein is turgid. 
Treatment.—Bleed, if possible; cover the body; lead gently to the 
nearest stable; keep hot rugs upon the animal; bandage the legs and 
hood the neck; warm the place, either by a fire or tubs full of hot water. 
Give, without noise, every half hour, one ounce of sulphuric ether, half 
an ounce of laudanum, half a pint of cold water. Should no chemist be 
at hand, beat up two ounces of turpentine with the yolk of an egg; mix 
it with half a pint of water, and repeat the dose at the times stated. 
Allow an ample bed, and place a pail of gruel within easy reach of the 
horse. Do not leave the animal for thirty hours, as in that time its fate 
will be decided. 
CONGESTION IN THE STABLE. 
Cause.—A debilitated, fat horse, unused to work, being driven fast 
with a heavy load behind it. 
Symptoms.—Hanging head; food not glanced at; blowing; artery 
gorged and round; pulse feeble; cold and partial perspirations ; feet 
cold; eye fixed; hearing lost; and the attitude motionless. 
Treatment.—Give immediately two ounces each of sulphuric ether and 
of Jaudanum in a pint of cold water. Give the drink with every caution. 
In ten minutes repeat the medicine, if necessary. Wait twenty minutes, 
and give another drink, if requisite; more are seldom needed. Take 
away all solid food, and allow gruel for the remainder of the day. 
CORNS. 
Cause.—In a flat foot, the heels of the coffin-bone squeeze the sensi- 
tive sole by pressing it against the shoe. Jn a contracted foot, the sen- 
sitive sole is squeezed between the wings of the coffin-bone and the thick, 
horny sole. A bruise results; blood is effused; and the stain of this left 
