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(nitre, bicarbonate of potash or soda, colchicum, iodide of potas- 

 sium) until fever and local inflammation have subsided. 



As soon as the patient can use the limb, walking exercise 

 should be kept up for several hours forenoon and afternoon. 



Throughout the disease the food should be of a light and non- 

 stimulating variety. When appetite returns give at first wheat 

 bran, or roots, or sweet grass in small amount, and do not return 

 to a grain diet until fully recovered and ready to go to work. 



After one attack there is always an increased liability to a 

 second, and great care should be taken to give the subject daily 

 exercise, or where this is impossible, to reduce the feed, give a 

 dose of saltpeter, and turn into a yard or roomy loose box on the 

 idle day. 



In chronic thickening of the limb, an evenly applied elastic 

 bandage, extending from the hoof up, regular feeding and exer- 

 cise, washing daily with a weak iodine lotion, and the internal- 

 use of iodide of potassium and other diuretics, with bitters and. 

 even iron tonics may be used. 



