Laryngitis in the Horse. iig 



prostration and a weak, rapid pulse, the bowels may be opened 

 by a laxative (3 or 4 drachms, aloes), and the water or gruel the 

 animal daily drinks should contain >^ to i ounce nitre. As an 

 expectorant the patient may take salammoniac i oz. daily in the 

 drinking water, or this agent may be evaporated from a clean 

 chafing dish every two hours and inhaled. Or he may take car- 

 bonate of potash or soda, or iodide of potassium. If the cough is 

 troublesome, half a drachm of Dover's powder may be given thrice 

 a day or i grain chloride of apomorphine every hour. Bromide 

 of potassium or sodium may also be resorted to. Inhalations or 

 spray of sulphurous acid, or vapor of oil of turpentine and insuf- 

 flations of calomel may benefit as local applications. The diet 

 must be confined to sloppy bran mashes, cut roots, or boiled bar- 

 ley, or oats. Hay should be withheld in the more acute cases un- 

 til improvement appears. Under treatment such as the above and 

 even without the medicinal part of it, the great majority of cases 

 will do well. 



In cases attended with high fever with strong full pulse and 

 bright red nasal membrane, the purgatives and diuretics are espec- 

 ially called for, and the former should have their action encour- 

 aged by frequent hot water injections. Twenty drop doses of the 

 tincture of aconite repeated four times a day, or ten drops every 

 three hours, will be further useful. 



When the symptoms are of such a type as portend the access of 

 paroxysms of threatened suffocation, bleeding has been strongly 

 recommended, but unless resorted to in the first twenty-four or 

 forty-eight hours is rarely admissible. Also in weakened constitu- 

 tions and when the fever is of a low type, with small, weak .pulse 

 and general dullness and prostration, the temporary relief obtain- 

 able from blood-letting will not often counterbalance the danger of 

 increasing weakness, and the loss of recuperative power. In all 

 such cases the application of a strong mustard poultice for several 

 hours in succession, until an abundant effusion has taken place, 

 into the skin and beneath it, has often the best effect by virtue of 

 its depletive and derivative action. Active friction of the limbs 

 to improve their circulation and increase their temperature is also 

 useful. 



Tracheotomy. When suffocation becomes imminent not a 

 moment must be lost in performing tracheotomy. This operation 



