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Injections of alkaline solution of aloes should also be 

 given, as it is of the greatest importance to get the bowels 

 open early. Belladonna in half-drachm doses should be 

 given four or five times a day. If it cannot be given other- 

 wise, place it up in the cheek, when he will suck it up ; or 

 good efi'ects will sometimes be obtained from do"Ses of twenty- 

 five drops of prussic acid given four or five times a day. He 

 must be kept perfectly quiet, and the box cool and dark, no 

 one being allowed to go ' near him but the attendants, and 

 they must work about him noiselessly. A newly-flayed 

 sheepskin should be laid over the loins, and well covered up 

 to excite perspiration, but blisters and other irritating treat- 

 ment must be avoided. ,He must be treated as in a nervous 

 fever. He should be allowed all the nutriment he will take ; 

 and when he cannot eat, sloppy drinks of linseed tea, barley 

 water, well boiled, oatmeal gruel, &c., should be frequently 

 placed within his reach. 



It may run its course in four or five days, or it may con- 

 tinue for one or two weeks. It very often proves fatal. 



EABIES OE MADNESS. 



This dreadful malady is, provideiitially, of rare occurrence, 

 and does ngt arise spontaneously in horses, but is usually the 

 efiects of the bite of a " mad dog." 



Symptoms.-^— The attack is usually sudden, as it is severe, 

 and seldom extends beyond the third day. It usually 

 appears from two to eight weeks after the animal has been 

 bitten. Sometimes it comes on gradually; he is observed 

 dull, and his manner is peculiar. The other animals in the 

 barn-yard seem afraid of him ; he is observed to snap and 

 bite at poultry, pigs,' sheep, or other horses, when roused, 

 then relapses into his dull state again. In a short time his 



