4*58 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[DECEJrBEE, 
[COPYRIGHT SECURED.] 
SCENES IN NEW YORK DURING THE PREVALENCE OF THE HORSE-DISEASE. 
■Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
ijbsi UlmA _ 
if 
111 
p 
11 
lift 
| | 
1 
1 
mu 
of the usual condiments or prepared cattle-feed 
will be found useful with sliglitly-warm flax¬ 
seed tea or thin bran or oat-meal gruel. If these 
simple remedies are used at once, the attack will 
generally pass off in a few days. If, however, 
through inadvertence or otherwise, the symp¬ 
toms are allowed to increase in severity, and a 
copious discharge from the nostrils occurs, with 
sore throat, cough, and falling off from the feed, 
cold feet and legs, and fever, more active reme¬ 
dies must be applied in addition to the above- 
mentioned treatment. The nostrils should be 
washed often witli warm water, in which a lit¬ 
tle vinegar has been mixed; the head steamed 
by means of a bag of scalded bran, hung 
beneath the nose; the feet and legs, after 
bathing in hot water, should be rubbed dry 
with woolen cloths; let the whole body be 
thus rubbed and then immediately blanketed 
from head to tail, and the patient kept free 
from drafts in a thoroughly ventilated, dry 
stable. Tar should be burned in the stable for 
a disinfectant; take a small quantity in an iron 
pot and stir it with a red-hot iron, and allow 
the smoke to penetrate all through the building. 
The soreness of the throat may be relieved by 
rubbing externally with mustard, mixed in milk- 
warm water, as for the table, and also by placing 
on the back of the tongue a spoonful of molasses 
or of honey and vinegar, made as thick as pos¬ 
sible. No medicine should be poured down 
the throat under any circumstances, and no 
bleeding should be allowed. On fine days 
gentle exercise is to be given, but no work 
should be permitted, nor exposure to damp 
or rain allowed. Rapid recovery should not 
be injudiciously attempted, nor should work 
or high feed be- hastily resumed, but ample 
time given for complete restoration to health, 
before these precautions cease. With them 
there will be no fear of anything more serious 
occurring than a few days’ idleness. 
Our artist has engraved some of the scenes 
which have been common during the course of 
this disease in New York and other large cities. 
The lightning express has owed its slower mo¬ 
tion to ox-teams, and the accumulation of all 
sorts of freight would have been greater than it 
has been had it not been for their needed help. 
Street-cars have been overloaded until car 
and horses have both broken down under the 
excessive loads, and occasionally a poor horse 
died, not from the disease, but from over¬ 
work when feeble and sick. On one occasion a 
horse-car has -been drawn by men at increased 
rates of fare, and loaded wagons have also been 
thus drawn along. In the middle of the pic¬ 
ture the methods of treating the complaint are 
illustrated; and on the whole, the scenes de¬ 
picted—not exaggerated in the least—go to 
show to what straits we should be brought if 
we should suddenly be deprived of our patient 
and absolutely indispensable beasts of burden. 
