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xv) with bicarbonate of soda (§iss) mixed with powdered 

 licorice root (gj), smeared over the teeth as an electuary, 

 may be tried. 



Skin. — Leg swellings are best reduced by elastic bandages, 

 and if the pulse will permit, moderate exercise. Burrow's 

 solution to which a little gum camphor is added may be used 

 as a leg wash under the bandage. 



Eyes. — The eyes should be treated as in conjunctivitis 

 (boric acid solution 2 per cent.) and the pulmonary and 

 pleural symptoms met as recommended under the Diseases 

 of the Respiratory Tract. 



Convalescent patients should not be worked until strong 

 enough and full appetite returned. The animal is generally 

 fully recovered fourteen days after the temperature has 

 become normal. 



Infectious Fibrinous Pneumonia of the Horse (Chest 

 Plague. Pectoral Influenza. Pleurisy. Shipping Fever). — 

 Definition. — An acute, febrile, contagio-infectious disease of 

 the horse which in typical cases appears as a fibrinous pneu- 

 monia or pleuropneumonia with which is associated inflam- 

 mation of the subcutis and tendon sheaths. In mild cases it 

 may assume the form of a general febrile disease of short 

 duration.- 



Occurrence. — Infectious fibrinous pneumonia is wide- 

 spread, occurring in all countries. Statistically it is difficult 

 to state, however, anything definite in regard to its prevalency, 

 as it has been so often confused with influenza. The disease 

 is most apt to appear in large stables in which many horses 

 are kept, and especially during inclement weather. The dis- 

 ease in passing through a stable does not usually affect the 

 horses in the order in which they stand in the stalls, the in- 

 fection tending to spread unevenly, skipping apparently 

 susceptible horses. Infectious pneumonia does not become 

 epizootic as readily as does influenza; it is more apt to 

 remain confined to an infected stable, from which it may be 

 spread, however, by a convalescent horse. While infectious 

 pneumonia will not involve in a given country as many horses 

 as influenza, on account of its higher mortality and a greater 

 tendency to leave behind sequelse ("heaves," relapsed cases) 



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