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the treatment with the view of preventing an attack, and suc¬ 
ceeded in every instance except one. This animal was well, or ap¬ 
parently so, when the treatment was commenced, but subsequently 
died. It was discovered, however, that he was a very bad animal 
to give medicine to, and as its administration was left to a stable-boy, 
and as he was obliged to put his hand in the horse’s mouth to give 
it, it is presumed from the fact of finding some of the medicine on 
the floor of his stall, that he received but little if any of it. How 
a few words about the treatment adopted. When the idea sug¬ 
gested itself to us we knew nothing of the cause of the disease, 
and could do nothing in that regard; but knowing the effects , i. e., 
the inflammation, and that it might be lighted up at any time, we 
directed our treatment to the object of preventing it, if such a 
thing was possible. With this end in view, we pursued the same 
plan as with those already attacked, viz., depletion by cathartics, 
closely following it with medium doses of the sedatives before re¬ 
ferred to, and with the happy results above stated. 
Other measures of treatment, both as regards those attacked, 
and those under preventive treatment, will have reference to hy¬ 
giene and diet. Keep the animals in stables or apartments that 
are clean, airy, but free from draughts. Let them have fresh water 
by them constantly; even if they cannot swallow much of it it 
will be grateful to them to wash their mouth, and they may even 
manage to get a little down. With regard to food; let them have 
small quantities of nutritious food, of small bulk, nicely prepared, 
and moderately thick gruel, etc. The surface of the body and ex¬ 
tremities should be watched as regards temperature; if cool, then 
light, warm clothing and bandages to the limbs will, by equalizing 
the circulation, materially assist the treatment. 
In pointing out the nature of, and naming this disease, we were 
guided by its identity with the cerebro-spinal meningitis or spotted 
fever of the human subject. The same lesions appear upon post¬ 
mortem ; the symptoms referable to the nervous system are alike, 
with this exception, that paralysis is not as frequent in the human 
as in the equine race; it was only several years after we had writ¬ 
ten on this disease in the horse that we saw noticed by medical 
writers on the disease in the human subject the paralysis of the 
