504 ALPHABETICAL SUMMARY. 
Treaiment.—Forbear all work; clothe warmly; house in a large, 
well-littered, loose box. Gruel for drink; green-meat, with three feeds 
of bruised and scalded oats, also beans, daily. If the bowels are obsti- 
nate, administer a drink composed of solution of aloes, four ounces; 
essence of anise seed, half an ounce; water, one pint. Should the throat 
not amend, dissolve half an ounce of extract of belladouna in a gallon 
of water; hold up the bead: pour half a pint of this preparation into 
the mouth, and in thirty seconds let the head down; do this six or eight 
times daily. No improvement being observed, try permanganate of pot- 
ash, half a pint; water, one gallon: to be used as directed in the pre- 
vious recipe. Still no change being remarked, prepare chloride of zine, 
three drachms; extract of belladonna, half an ounce; tincture of capsi- 
cums, two drachus; water, one gallon. 
All being useless, give two pots of stout daily, and blister the throat. 
No alteration ensuing, cast the horse, and mop out the fauces with a 
sponge which is wet with nitrate of silver, five grains; water, one ounce. 
Give a ball daily composed of oak-bark and treacle. 
If none of these measures succeed, the throat must be complicated 
with some other disease. 
SPASM OF THE DIAPHRAGM. 
Cause.—Imprudently riding too far and too fast. 
Symptom.—Distress, and a strange noise heard from the center of the 
horse. 
Treatment.—Pull up; cover the horse’s body; lead to the nearest 
stable. Give as soon as possible a drink composed of sulphuric ether, 
two ounces; laudanum, one ounce; tincture of camphor, half an ounce; 
cold water or gruel, one pint. Give four drinks, one every quarter of 
an hour; then another four, one every half hour, and then at longer 
intervals as the animal recovers. When first brought in, procure five 
steady and quiet men; give a bandage each to four of them, and order 
them silently to bandage the legs; give a basin and sponge to the other, 
and bid him sponge the openings to the body. This done, and sweat 
and dirt removed, clothe perfectly after the skin is quite dry. 
SPASM OF THE URETHRA. 
Cause.—Acridity in the food or water. 
Symptoms.—Small and violent emissions; straddling gait. Roached 
back ; pain; total suppression of urine. 
Treaiment.—Insert the arm up the rectum, and feel the gorged blad- 
