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T. D. HINEBAUCH. 
The above symptoms are often attended by much debility, 
so that the animal walks with a staggering gait, swaying from 
side to side. There may or may not be soreness of the throat. 
The symptoms gradually increase until the third, fourth or 
fifth day, when they begin gradually to subside. The dis¬ 
charge from the nostrils becomes thicker, yellow and diffuse, 
the cough moist and loose, the pulse decreases in number and 
becomes stronger, respiration approaches the normal, swell¬ 
ings gradually disappear, and in fifteen to twenty days the 
animal recovers its former strength and again takes on flesh. 
Dropsical swellings (erroneously called farcy or fearcy by 
some), sometimes appear on the legs, sheath, belly and chest. 
They are not serious, however, for as strength is regained 
they gradually disappear. Most cases at lirst appear in the 
simple or uncomplicated form, and if properly handled will 
in most instances yield to simple treatment, but if allowed to 
continue unchecked may eventually terminate in some of the 
severest forms and induce death. 
Treatment. —Attend to the surroundings and provide the 
best hygienic conditions, such as pure air and water, clothe 
the body comfortably with light woolen clothing and bandage 
the legs. If the animal can be placed in a good roomy box 
stall, so much the better. In winter the chill may be taken 
off the water by using hot water, but it never should be al¬ 
lowed to warm up in a room. Give plenty of good, nutritive, 
easily digested food, in small amounts at a time. Steam the 
nostrils by using a pail full of boiling water in which has been 
placed one ounce of turpentine and a teaspoonful of carbolic 
acid. Throw a blanket over the horse’s head, place the pail 
underneath, and stir the water with a wisp of hay or straw. 
The steaming should be continued for twenty minutes at a 
time, and repeated three times per day, care being taken that 
the horse does not take cold. Dissolve a teaspoonful of pow¬ 
dered saltpetre in the drinking water three times daily. Two 
ounces of turpentine daily in doses of one ounce each, given 
in half a pint of raw linseed oil, will have a tendency to pre¬ 
vent an attack of purpura hemorrhagiea, which sometimes is 
a sequel of distemper. If there be much fever, give quinine 
