Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-05

Cold legs and ears,
Disposition to droOp,
Looseness of bowels.
TREATMENT.
Keep the patient well bJanketed in a
clean airy stable, give it a steaming, by
placing a peck of scalded oats into a
bag; and so tying this to the head that
the steam from the oats will be inhaled
until discharge from nostrils is of nat
ural color, sponge eyes and nOstrils
with lukewarm water several times
during the day. If the throat is sore or
swollen apply the following, by rub
bing it well from the jaws 20 the chest,
twice day: Tincture of Arnica, Chic
roform, Ammonia, Sweet Oil, each
four ounces; mix well. If the horse is
taken with chills and fever, mix oEe
ounce Tineture Aconite leaves with
three ounces of soft water, give "A tea
spoonful every hour until the symp-
toms abate.
Feed the animal on a warm mash of
oat meal cruel, give about two quarts
! at q time. Ifa bottle is used for the
purpose, be sure that it is not so thin as
to make its breaking liable. Instead of
water give your horse hay tea, from a
pail in which you have stirred in 3
handful each of powdered slipperyelm
bark and lieorice root, clean the pail
every time after watering. If the
horse feels better, do not work it for
two or three days. Absolute rest is
necessary.
The morbid appearances to be seen in
the post rnortem examination of horses
dying of this disease prove it to be a
condition of inflammation, affecting the
lining membrane of the passage of the
nose, windpipe, and che larger bronch-
ial tubes. Covering as it does very
extended surface by reason of fthe dupli-
catures to the spongy bones in the nose
of the animals, it fully accomplishes
one of its principal functions, TO warm
the air passing over it, thus protecting
the delicate structure of the lungs from
the sudden gradations of temperature.
1t also secrete5 bland mucous which
moistens its surface and preserves more
perfectly, its relations as a means of
communication between the external
world and the delicate apparatus of the
lungs, and since in the horse more than
in the human subject, the respiration
is confined to the nasal passage, so the
integrity of the tissue is necessary to
health, especially when we remember
the rapid motion of the animal, and in
creased size, demand much larger and
more violent current of air.
Much has been written of the various
theories of the causation of Epidemics
of this kind, bat perhaps the most ra-
tional and fully accepted is the Zymot-
ic which supposes the entrance into
the system, of a cell or organic particles,
which being rapidly multiplied by a
process Instrumentation at last developes
the symptoms of the Epidemic dis
ease.
An Epidemic therefore is a reproduc-
tion of a like disease in other subjects.
The morbid cause being furnished from
preceding cases. Each subject, there
fore, being an effect of the morbid agen-
ey, as well as cause for its continued
propagation.
The stages of the iniammatory at
tack are three in number. The first,
congestion or stagnation of blood in the
small vessels which constitute so essen
tial part of this membrane, Second
ly; The stage of resolution or of secre-
ton and characterized by the profuse
discharge. Thirdly; The stage of con-
valescence, in which the discharge
ceases and the function of the part is
resumed. The morbid appearance of
the first stage is a reddening of the af-
fected membrane more or less intense
according to the intensity of the attack.
The small veins coursing over the sur
face being swollen and the blood con-
tanned in them being almost stagnant.
The secretion is nearly dry, and the
general symptoms are those of fever.
This stage lasts but a few hours and in
many cases is so brief as to escape no
tice.
In The second stage the membrane is
more livid. the blood current slower,
the turgid veins and thickened men,
brane, fill the air passage, and render
the breath difficult, aided by the SWELL
ing of the sub-mucous glands in the
throat. In the severe forms of the COM
plant Inflammation of the tonsils also
occurs with suppuration of the glands
beneath thejaw. In this stage secre-
tion takes place of a profuse character.
1t is at first clear, rapidly becomes
creamy, thick and yellow,-sometimes
greenish, and in the violent forms of
the complaint, bloody. The beneficial
effect of this secretion is OF two-fold
character, first; to deplete the engorged
vessels giving rest to the inti. .mmation,
leading it to favorable issue, and sec
ondly, itfurnishes channel for draw
ing of the morbid matter in the blood,
while its absence or sudden suppression
is a very unfavorable symptom. The
secretion takes place from all the sur
face of the lining membrane of the
nose, throat, wind pipe, and the por-