The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-12-13
THE HORSE DISEASE.
EpIToR BULLETIN

From oil accounts the prevailing horse
disease is essentially an influenza. After
infection, from one to three days inter.
Vene before its appearance. Its symp-
toms are sudden. They differ according
to the parts attacked and the severity of
the attacks Sometimes the disease con-
fines itst If 70 the throat; sometimes to the
parts OF the neck further back; some
times to the lungs sometimes to the
digestive organs, and sometimes to the
tendons and muscles, when tits rheumatic
in form. A common symptom of all these
forms Is great weakness and prosration
indispositiOn to move, eyes relaxed, limbs
taggering, etc.
The dampness in the air being the
main cause Of the epidemic, and your
stables being loaded with the accumuIar
ton of decaying matter, which takes on
the formation of peculiar miasmatic,
fungard growth, developing subtle poison
which attacks the throat and lungs of
your animal, and the dampness of the
earth and air chills the animal and pro,
duces a rheumatic fever all through his
system. Now to gUard against this you
must first look to sanitary measures.
The first thing is to thoroughly ventilate
your stables, cleanse them and rurify;
remove all old straw, manure, etc white
wash your stables inside and out; scatter
lime in all the moist specially
do this in your stalls and remove all the
old dust and cobwebs Prevention is
better than q cure, and you should fumi
gate your stables with tar, rosin and
sulpber, and do this whether you have
the disease or not among your stock, and
you will be among the fortunate by these
careful ways, while those who have horses
that are down with the disease will soon
find their animals getting we'll If the
disease assumes a severe form you must
resort to the following treatment:
When the horse begins to cough, stop
feeding hay, giving only bran mashes. If
the glands OF the neck are swollen, rub
the neck and glands well with a good
stimulating liniment-such as any good
druggist can prspare-and tie up the
neck with flannel or other wooden goods
besides keeping the horse blanketed, and
also put blankets around their fet-lock
joints. 1t will be a great benefit also to
steam the head over pan on which tar,
sui pher and rosin are burning. Swinging
the horse with tepid water and Brown
Chloraleum has been used in our northern
cities to advantage.
Sprinkle a solution of carbolic acid
around your stable, or chloride of soda,
OF chloride Of lime dissolved in water.
In some cases it is advisable to give your
horse doses Of clorate Of potassa or nitrate
of potussa to act upon the uniary pas
sages and tend to lessen the feverish con-
dition of the system and at the same
time keep their bowels in a proper conN
dition. When the horse refuses to eat
give only oat meal or corn meal
mashes with bran in a Cruel form,
and in no case give cold water to drink
Phe proper use of such medicines a. as
safoeteda, copperas, sulpher, lime and
soda at intervals during the disease IL
good as also feeding mixture of such
to your stock at occasional periods during
the year.
This treatment, with care and n:ten.
ton, and keeping your horse warm and
clean will bring the sufferers through al
right Perfect quiet must be Observed
The horse being finely organized ami
NAL, the surface EXPOSED to the air in hi:
lungs is about one thousand square feet
t and since he is so often overworked ant
badly housed, it is not strange that suct
influenza, like epizootic, in general
should spread rapidly when E.vorabl,
conditions occur, and hence this dIseas,
; at this time demands prompt treatment
whereas the few cases Of autumn and
, spring do not excite our attention, nor a.
r sumo such violent forms
0 a horse has great powers of life, bu
in the more dangerous cases, where AZ
fictcd animals are not able to soon over
E come by their vital power aided by gen
e tie external application the progress Q
the disease, the following rules may re
J suit with good:
; Prepare q solution Of one OF. of blu
vitrio to two gallons Of water and injec
By means ola syriage, two to four ounce
= of solution three or four times u day a
, the same time put one or two tablespoon
q ful Of the Gquid on too Of the moistene