The Portland daily press., 1872-10-28

ons to good account by setting up Ia the Eight
parcel express" business.
More than half the horses of the fire depart
ment were under medical treatment, and Chief
Engineer Damrell contemplates, should the
disease spread further among them, request
to citizens to imam the rope" as of yore,
when an alarm of fire is given. Each engine
and hose carriage is provided with a life line,
which will he kept ready for emergencies, and
all good citizens who demand it will be paid by
the hour for efficient service.
Scarcely town in Massachusetts, is free
from the disease, and in Rhode Island and Con-
necticut it is beg inning to rage with more or
less vigor. Recipes for the cure of the dstenl-
per are abundant, and all are like patent medi-
cines, warranted to cure. We publish few
for the benefit of the public. A Cambridge
veterinarian says:
The horse should be used as little as possible
and when in use care should be taken not to
sweat him. He should be fed entirely on warm
mot hot) bran mashes and his stable clothing
should consist, in addition to blanket, of a
flannel tied loosely around his throat. Above
all things, if the horse is in use, keep heavy
blanket on him when standing still
Another newspaper correspondent writes:
". .. -.
with light nourishng diet OF scalded oats or
oat meal, with good sweet hay, will bring them
| out in very few days. The treatment should
| be commenced with aconite, say five or six
drops in a little water (Which the animal will
| drink readily on account of his feverish stated,
to be repeated till the feverish symptoms disap-
pear, to be followed by bryonia, which acts
upon the lungs and respitory organs and in
some cases belladOna fused alternately has
| been found useful After the worst symptoms
| Il rod fayu doSas of laup FOL
| lowed by sulphur will complete the cure.
A third recommends this:
The simplest and cheapest, as well as one OF
| the most efestual of these disinfectants is the
copperas of commerce (sulphate of from. 1t is
only necessary to mix couple of pounds of
copperas with pailful Of water, aud when
| thoroughly dissolved sprinkle the floor of the
stable, as well as the manure heap beneath two
| or three times a day. This fixes the ammonia,
allays the unpleasant and unwholesome odors
| which are constantly given off by the accumu-
latlons of stables, and renders the atmosphere
sound and sweet.
'One who has cured thirty horses gives his
receipt: .
On taking the disease the horse shows signi
Of lassitude and cough Give him five drops O
aconite, followed in two hours by five drops OF
| belladona; keep him quiet, with loose diet and
after the third day he will be able to work.
The medicines are given in the first dilution of
the homeopathic form.
Dr. Somerville, "a veterinary surgeon of Roch
ester, N. T., who made thorough investiga-
ton of the disease in Canada, sends the follow
ing prescription and manner of treatment, t.
the Metropolitan Railway Company, who furn
ish it for publication:
'In the first stage, three times daily, ON
drachm of either iodide of potassium or thu
chlorate OF potassium, dissolved in three ounces
of water If infamotory symptoms set il
give preparation of aconite. Rub the wind
pipe. breasts and sides with stimulating EN-
brocation daily. Exercise on the fifth day"
Our Geographic columns will furnish still
later accounts of the state of equine health il
different parts of the country