The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-13

horse dry. He got up, ate dry bran
voraciously for few minutes; then
he spluttered and choked and coughed
again, worse than ever. ebay sent for
large bellows, filled it with bran and
hay cut into quarter inch lengths, and
while twelve stout men held the horse,
ebay blew the mixture down his throat
up his nose and into his eyes and ears,
until he (the horse,) laid down in an
asthmatic fit. Then he began to swell.
he swelled up like hosghead. That
was bad symptom. ebay said such
a swellhead of horse wasn't worth
doctoring.
p. Ersell, who had calmly looked on,
wanted to know if we thought that
the horse had been given enough med
icine. He suggested two quarts of
epson salts, to be followed by n gallon
of tobacco solution and three pints OF
kerosene oil. If that did not work sat-
isfactorily, give him seven pounds of
yeast cakes, six bars of McMillan's
soap, rolled into pills, land one pound OF
saltpetre. This was done. The horse
groaned and rolled in great agony.
Evidently his epizootic defed all
known remedies, and the poor horse
was in his last struggles. His cough
was feeble, but shook him badly; his
nose was very infiamed; his mouth
and eyes watered terribly, his ears
hung limp, his legs tottered, he hic-
cOughed, staggered, and could hardly
stand without help. His pulse fuc-
tuated to a fearful degree, and every
minute he would roll over and over,
writhing, kicking, groaning, and biting
in most distressing manner. Every
body felt sorry, and said the epizootic
was the worst thing they ever saw.
DIR. NJ. came along, and was hard
hearted enough to say that if the horse
haG not been medicated in so extraor-
binary q way, that-but his further re-
marks were but cut short by the indig-
nant crowd. He got away amid
shower of currycombs and water buck
cts, with pitchfork tine sticking in
him.
Gills came to the rescue. ellis
father-in-law had saved more horses
east than any other man around there.
He did it by exercise. The system
must be kept active. The horse must
not be allowed to droup. Saddle him,
ride hins, spur him up, keep him NOV
ing at full speed, don't let him rest,
and the disease will be thrown off by
the force of exercise. There was
vigorous sense in this. We saddled
him, put on q curb bit and our best
spurs, and sailed forth. The horse
was weak, but the spurs started him.
He painted dreadfully and labored at q
fearful late. ellis followed behind
probing him with the pitchfork, but
the horse tainted hundred feet from
the barn door, refused to get up, and
was carried by the entire crowd back
to his stall. He lay helpless, and ellis
remarked that horse without Il con-
stitutiOn could not expect to get over
the epizootic.
+. n. Drum asked why not blister
edies, but none the worse for that.
So under his directions we put u blister
on his nose, blister on each ear, a very
large one on his throat and gigantic
mustard plaster on his stomach. They
had good effect. The horse soon be-
gan to roll about and finally got up.
He staggered around quite lively, but
his symptoms otherwise did not grow
better. d. bled him - took n pailfull
of blood from each of his hind legs.
Then he laid down again. We remov-
ed the bIisters; the hair came off with
them. There was no weakness in
those. blisters-but there was a fearful
weakness in the horse. Drum said if
the horse had any natural strength the
blisters would have brought him out
all right. l. 2. Slime said he never
saw better blood horse, that is, if any
blood was left after
The prompt application of scoop
shovel quieted him, and he was carried
off in 4 buffalo hide.
We could not do more. The horse
couldn't stand, couldn't swallow,
couldn't eat. He could hardly see or
breathe. The fell epizootic had defied
our best efforts, and had its deathly
hand upon the unfortunate animal.
w. /. BLY, proposed last resbrt-the
cold water treatment, to overcome the
fever. lie was in 4 burning fever
cold water inside and out was the only
thing. Ice water was poured down
his throat, dashed on his hide, until
everything about was freezing wet.
But the horse only hung down his
head and moaned painfully, with
shivering limbs. Neither heat or cold
could battle with the epizootic. Ev-
cry body agreed that there was no use,
some horses had to die, and this was
one of that kind.
Just here RaussiR came along. The
crowd respectfully formed in double
file, standing in breathless suspense,
as he ran his hand down the horses
throat into its stomach, and fell
around in there about fifteen minutes
Then the horse smiled family, while
Raussin felt its pulse. He wanted tC
know what we had done. We pointed
to the horse and replied in one word,
everything" He thought we had
He said he could not give any uscfu
advice at this juncture. We might
] sponge the animals mouth and nos'
with sweet oil, blanket him and givt
him a cruel of warm water and meal
An egg wouldn't hurt him. No mor'
medicine. 1t was no use in his case
Look after him carefully while he liv
| ed, and let him know if he lived NOR
than twenty-four hours. If lie go
f well he would buy him at any pric'
we asked. He had been looking afte
very "tough' horse, horse tina
nothing could kill or permanently in
jure. If our horse got well he wa
exactly the ANIMAL he wanted, and h
. must have him at any cost.
We mopped the stall, rubbed tn
. horse dry as possible, spread dry ha,
| on him, sponged his head inside ant
out, gently. with oil, and got a littl
? nice Cruel down him, and went to bed
. perfectly exhausted. Next morning h
! was trying to nibble hay. He swal
/ lowed, with evident pain, more gruel
, He is able to stand up an hour at
4 ime to-day. He looks iearfully use
!. UP. The epizootic left its marks a
= over him. He is swelled on one sid
e like huge tumor, and the other sid
G is covered with warts as big as cobble
e stones. His tail is broken. His knee
n orn nI,r,,A tho riun Of q ~ afar mil IN