THE RECENT INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES. 615 
When the Legs remain swelled, after the active 
symptoms have passed away, I give diuretics combined with 
vegetable tonics, as gentian and ginger; and I have the legs 
frequently hand-rubbed, and order exercise, according as the 
strength will admit; but usually as the appetite returns the 
legs become fine. 
Exercise is, of course, inadmissible so long as the symptoms 
are urgent, or while the breathing is disturbed ; but as soon as 
this is on the decline, it becomes of great advantage. 
With respect to the general Treatment of such 
horses as were not sick, most particular attention was paid to 
ventilation, and the numbers were reduced in each stable. All 
bedding was often exposed to the air. The stables were often 
sprinkled with a solution of chloride of lime, and the diet of the 
horses changed to bran, in lieu of corn, twice a-week. I think 
nothing is more imperative in these cases than thinning the 
number of horses in the stables. Long walking exercise was 
also given ; but the horses were not allowed to be sweated. I 
have heard in some places that, with a view of prevention, they 
are in the habit of smearing the wall in front of the horse with 
tar; but I cannot speak of it from experience. 
In the above general description of symptoms and treatment 
I have been obliged to describe the disease in its worst stages. 
I have had many cases, however, that were very slight, and 
needed more the aid of the nurse than the doctor. 
Among the cases entered, I have had two malignant ones, in 
which the disease assumed a different, type, and wherein the 
diaphragm and lungs appeared to be primarily affected, and 
they both proved fatal. I shall in brief detail them : — 
The FIRST Case was a mare fifteen years of age, admitted 
with, apparently, every symptom of broken wind. Indeed, the 
mare when first noticed had been feeding, and was then doing 
so, as usual, at the time I happened to notice her when looking 
carefully round the horses. I never before saw any thing so 
like broken wind ; and had I not known the animal perfectly, 
I should have thought it was so. Indeed, so like was it, that I 
could not then tell whether or not it was a sudden attack of 
that complaint. There was the same peculiar short suppressed 
cough; the same double heave of the flanks; the same asth- 
matical expiration ; while, by placing my ear to the chest at 
any part, I could detect the peculiar asthrnatical rale which I 
have always found present in that complaint. The animal was 
at once taken to an airy loose box; on the way whither, but 
for the choking fits of coughing produced by the exertion, it 
was found she could walk very well. I watched her very 
closely. She seemed to be in an excited state, her eyes exhi- 
