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the animal. Liquor arsenicalis may be given in the ‘drinking water, in 
half-ounce to six drachm doses twice daily for two-or three weeks, then once 
a day for a similar period, and finally once every alternate day. Purgatives, 
such as aloes or linseed oil, may be given in moderate doses if required. Their 
occasional administration is beneficial in regulating the action of the bowels, 
It is well known that horse-coopers adopt certain measures in order to pass 
a broken-winded animal for sale. With this object they allow little or no 
food, give the animal a good sharp trot to empty the bowels, and administer’ 
drugs such as digitalis, opium, and other agents such as shot, which have a 
temporary sedative effect, and thus deceive many persons. 
-y CHILL, COMMON COLD, AND CHRONIC CATARRH. 
Ir not unfrequently happens after a day’s hunting, more especially when 
there have been many and prolonged halts on cold and wet days, that horses 
take a chill in consequence of the exposure. Frequently the services of a 
veterinary surgeon are not called for in these cases of simple feyer, or 
febricula as it is termed, unless the symptoms be somewhat more severe or 
the animal more distressed than he generally is. In most instances of 
simple fever resulting from chill, the attendant first notices that the animal 
does not take his food, but stands dejected or moves about restlessly, with 
cold and staring coat. The number of respirations is not much increased in 
ordinary cases, but may reach as high as 18 or 20 in the minute. If much 
more frequent, we have reason to suspect that the lungs may be inflamed or 
congested, and the case is then, of course, of a much more serious nature. 
The pulse in simple fever is raised from 48—60, or even possibly higher, and 
the internal temperature as indicated by the thermometer reaches to 102°— 
104° F. The bowels are constipated, and the fever remains high for two, 
three, or four days, or possibly longer. In such cases as these, it will be 
necessary in the first place to put the animal in a well-ventilated loose box, 
and the diet should be of a laxative character, consisting of linseed or oatmeal 
gruel, a few carrots, and grass. The groom should carefully bandage the 
legs, and should keep up the surface heat by friction of the legs and ears, and 
by moderate clothing. \ Medicinally, either half a pint ¢ of linseec_gil, or two- 
or three drachms of aloes should be given in the first 1 instance: and a draught. 
consisting of Fleming’s tincture of e of aconite, five minims ; ‘Tiquor ammonii 
acetatis, four ounces ; ‘bicarbonate ot of potassium, half, an_ounce ; nitric ether 
‘one ounce ¢ and a half; and water to make a pint, “may be administered every 
five or six hours, so long as the acute symptoms last. Such cases, however, 
generally recover by the end of the second or third day, when they are not 
complicated by any other malady. 
We have now to speak of acute catarrh or common cold, as this complaint 
is usually termed. By the term catarrh, we mean a condition characterised 
by inflammation of the lining membrane of the nostrils, and of its continuation 
along the upper portions of the windpipe. In this condition there is a 
