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MR. YOUATT S VETERINARY LECTURES. 
brane already affected, and the mucous membranes generally; 
and I shall have again and again to prove to you that in severe 
thoracic affection, or in that which may soon become so, a dose 
of physic would be a dose of poison. There are few more fatal, 
and 1 am sorry to say more frequent instances of mal-practice 
than this. Thousands of horses are lost by physicking under 
catarrh. Some of iny young friends saw with me a case, a few 
days ago, in which a horse was murdered by the administration 
of a dose of physic under what appeared to be common cold. 
Treatment resumed. —If, however, careful investigation assures 
us that there is no affection of the lungs, that the disease has 
not proceeded beyond the fauces, we may w'ith advantage unite 
small doses of aloes to our nitre, emetic tartar, and digitalis. 
To evacuate the intestinal canal, and to reduce the fvecal dis¬ 
charge to a pultaceous form, must ever be beneficial, if we so 
adjust our doses as to stop there ; but if we proceed one step fur¬ 
ther, dangers environ us. 
Sore Throat. —If catarrh is accompanied by sore throat; if 
the parotids should enlarge and become tender (there are no ton¬ 
sils, amygdal(Ef'\n the horse), or if the submaxillary glands should 
be inflamed and tender, and the horse should quid his food and 
gulp his water, this will be an additional reason for bleeding, and 
also for warm clothingr and a comfortable stable. I do not mean a 
hot stable, in which the foul air is breathed over and over again, 
but a temperature some degrees above that of the external air,and 
where that determination to the skin and increased action of the 
exhalent vessels of the integument may take place, which in 
these cases are so desirable. 
Liniments. —Some stimulating liniment may be applied over 
the inflamed gland, consisting of the turpentine tincture of can- 
tharides diluted with five times its quantity of spermaceti or 
neatVfoot oil; strong enough to produce considerable irritation 
on the skin, but not to blister, or to destroy the hair. An em¬ 
brocation sufficiently powerful, and yet that never destroys thje 
hair, consists of equal parts of hartshorn, oil of turpentine, and 
camphorated spirit, with a sixth part of laudanum. 
Catarrh^ or Hoose in Cattle. 
Cattle, and particularly cows, are very subject to catarrh. 
They are so when most judiciously treated, and especially those 
that are highly bred, and bred for several generations in and in. 
This produces a delicacy of frame and constitution, which ren¬ 
ders them unable to struggle with any kind of hardship. When 
cattle are crowded together, they are seldom without hoose. I 
have seen the vapour produced by their perspiration steaming 
