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matter will discharge from the nostrils, and the whole head ap- 
pears diseased. In other points the animal may enjoy good 
health for a considerable time, his appetite and condition will be 
good, and he will perform his work without distress : great care 
is, however, particularly necessary, as the contagion proceeding 
from this disease is found to be very inveterate and diffusible. % 
He should be picketed a considerable distance from other 
horses, and never in such a situation that his grass may be blown 
by the wind to others, as the smallest particles of matter existing 
on grass which he has slightly breathed on will produce infection. 
If the horse is of little value, it would certainly be most pru- 
dent to destroy him ; but if he is a favourite animal, and as a 
cure is sometimes performed when taken in a recent state, I shall 
advise that treatment which is most likely to succeed. 
Hot fomentations around his throat may be used twice a-day, 
of Mergosia leaves in boiling water, or of hot vinegar in which 
crude sal ammoniac has been dissolved in the porportion of one 
drachm to a pint. 
The following may also be used once or twice a-day, placed 
in such a manner as to act as a vapour bath to his head : — 
Take of boiling vinegar one pint, a small bundle of roseberry, 
or five or six drops of its essential oil ; mix, and place it under 
his head, that he may receive the vapour. 
The nostrils should be frequently washed, and the ulcers 
touched by a feather dipped in the following : — Take of vinegar 
two table spoonsful, honey one table spoonful, tincture of myrrh, 
one table spoonful ; mix, &c. 
If the animal’s condition will allow, four quarts of blood may 
be taken from him, and the same course of stimulant and tonic 
boluses is recommended as in the farcy. 
If the disease does not give way in two or three months, the 
matter will probably have extended from the membranes to the 
bones, and produce rotten ulcers, which are incurable. 
Section 4. — Of the Bkatn and Nerves. 
The brain is divided into two parts, — the cerebrum, which is 
inferior in the horse; and the cerebellum, superior. It is also 
composed of two different substances : the external, called cor- 
tical, is of grey colour, and dense ; while the interior is white, 
soft, and termed medulla. 
The superior part of the brain, called cerebellum, is continued 
down the back-bone, and takes the name of spinal marrow, which 
supplies with nerves the greatest part of the trunk of the body 
and inferior extremities; while the inferior part of the brain, 
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