Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-10-30
HORSE EPIDEMIC.
Prescription for the Cure of the Disease.

Prescription for the Cure of the Disease.
Our dispatches for a few days past have
brought the most alarming intelligence of
the spread of fatal malady among horses
in several of the Northern and Eastern
cities. Apropos to the occasion. we clip
the following. from the New York Erening
Post.
The horse disease which has been so
prevalent in Canada has made its appear
ance in Buffalo and Rochester, and it is
natural to suppose that it will continue to
move eastward and southwark. The
plague has been so general in Montreal
that great difficulty has been experienced
in keeping the street cars running and the
Fire Brigade provided with horses, while
one surgeon has two thousand under his
care. The following description of the
disease and its treatment is taken from the
Buffalo Commercial, and is worth pre-
serving
The early symptoms of this disease are
said to be a light, hacking cough and gem
eral dizziness, with an indisposition to
move cold ears and legs, with a watery
discharge from the nostrils. AT first the
nasal membrane is pale, but as the disease
advances it becomes highly colored, and
the mucous discharge changes to n green
ish or yellow color and the pulse becomes
more rapid. As soon as these symptoms
appear the animal should be kept warm in
the stable by blanketing, and warm bran
nashes should be given,
A letter from Dr. G.. Elliott, veterinary
surgeon of St. Catharines, contains what
have proved to be valuable suggestions for
the treatment of horses suffering from the
epidemic now so prevalent among these
animals. DR.. Elicit advises that the sta
BILE be well ventilated, the horses blanket
ed and chloride of lime sprinkled through
the stable every morning. The nostrils
should be sponged out two or three times
a day, if the mucus adheres thereto. The
food should consist of bran with little
oats and n moderate quantity of nay. If
the bowels are costive, half-pint of raw
linseed oil may be given but it is proba-
bic that the mash will cause sdfficient re-
taxation.
Prescription No. given below should
be administered every morning and eve
ming. If the throat should be sore-which
can be ascertained by pressure of the hand
upon the larynX-about two table spoon
fulls of prescription No. (also given be-
low should be rubbed in. SO long as the
disease is confined to the larynX there is
but very little danger. but should it de-
scend to the lungs-which will be indi-
Gated by the continued standing up of the
animal, cold eXtremities and labored
breathing-a half-pound of mustard should
be mixed with two ounces of turpentine
and water to the consistency of thick
cream, and the mixture rubbed well in
behind the forelegs or over the region of
the lungs. The legs should be bandaged if
cold. If the pulse should be more than
fifty-tive per minute, fifteen drops of
Flemming's tincture of aconite should be
given every two hours, and if the breath
ing still continues laborei and the pulse
grows more rapid, apply the mustard
again, and give one and a-half drachms of
calomel for two mornings. The following
are the prescriptions referred to:
Prescription No l-Linseed oil, II ounces
turpentine, II ounces; liquor ammonia fort. l
ounce. Mix all together in four-ounce bottle
and apply to the throat if you think it necessa-
ry to do so.
Prescription No. Nitrate potash II
oun es; tartarized anthony, II ounces dgi-
tall ounce. Pulverize all together and make
twelve powders give one morning and night.
=. S.-If they are not very bad you
might omit the last ingredient, namely,
digitalis.