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

regard 70 trouble OF expense. we
prepared for the emergency before il
came. met it promptly ut the barn
door, and never ceased to aid our horse
to conquer glorious victory or die in
the attempt. Our experience is of in
calculable value to the horse frater-
nifty, and as we were given advice
freely, we hasten TO tell the public all
about the matter.
First, and before the disease arriv-
ed we read carefully all the newspapers
describing the EplzoOtic and its treat
ment, and proceeded to the drug store
to get the various preventives recon-
mended. We got 'em all and hurried
home. There were four bottles, six
paper packages, five small boxes, a
newly invented horse cataIrh syringe,
and a small charcoal furnace. We
carefully deposited the assortment in a
safe place, and took a critical survey
OF the horse. He was eating hay, but
Immediately stopped, held up his head,
and began to paw with his near fore
foot. That used to signify his deter
mination to at once be given 4 hand
full of oatS. But he did not get any.
The papers said oats irritated the mu-
cous membrane. Corn was heating.
Dry hay aggravated a cough. The
only safe thing was Il properly medi-
Gated mash.
But first of all, fun igation. Fumi-
CATION destroyed the malaria. The
charcoal furnace was put at work, and
the barn apertures closed. The
cover grew hot. We sprinkled some
assoefedita on it. Then some OF
Floyd's condition powders. Then u
lot of sulphur and scotch snuff. Then
a handful of feathers stepped in oil of
tar. Then We gasped for breath and
CROPPED out of the stable. We listen
ed. Sure enough, the horse had a
cough. He had fearful cough. He
coughed like the old cow the boy
thought would "coffer dam head off. "
We were too late. The disease always
begins with cough. The fumigation
was not tried soon enough. 1t was
too late for preventives. There was a
crash. The horse had got loose, and
in laundering about with his cough
had put his foot in the drug basket,
and entirelyruined most of its contents.
We called wildly for help and rushed
into the stable. The smoke rushed
out. The horse sneezed as If he had
his nose full of tacks. We tearlully
picked up the fragments, and with
sorrowful heart announced to our
better half, who had arrived with 4
pail of water and mop to put out the
supposed conflagration, that sure
enough and sadly enough, our horse
had the epizootic. The symptoms
were only too evident. His eyes were
watery, his nose very moist, his head
dropped, his tail hung, and a sepul-
chral cough attested the fierce hold
of the malady.
We instantly medicated a mash. 1t
had in it ten ounces of tartar emetic, a
teaspoonful of Turkey rhubarb, a
pound of digatilis, two quarts of aloes, n
half-pint of castor oil, eight ounces OF
cayenne pepper, q tablespoonful of
bran, moistened with plenty of con-
centrated potash. No horse who had
eaten this mash had died. We eagerly
watched our favorite. To decoy his
palate we sprinKled salt on the top.
He dived his nose and open mouth
into the feed box. The next moment
his nose and mouth still open came
out. The mash dropped from his
mouth as If red hot, and he looked re-
proachfully at us, with his eyes weep
ing bitter tears. Nothing would in
duce him to touch that mash again
That it was desperate case of Epi-
zootic of the worst type was evident.
The nostrils should be syringed
thoroughly, and then wiped dry, every
fifteen minutes. The syringe was
loaded. 1t held three quarts. There
was chloride of lime, spirits of nitre
sweet oil, ground ginger, bromide OF
potassium, carbolic acid, and colo
: tansy tea, with two bottles of Sage
catarrh remedy, and half pound o
saleratus. We had some extra sheets
The oldest and softest of these hat
been carefully selected as handker
chiefs for wiping his nose. Th'
syringe had two nozzles, working int
both nostrils at once, and fastened
with a patent spring behind the ears
With one hand on the animals nose
and the other on the syringe, we sud
, denly discharged the conten is of tn
latter into the former. 1t worked +
a charm. The dose had a magnificen
effect. The horse felt its power. H
reared, he kicked, he jumped, he snort
A cd wildly and furiously. The syring
| flew off and he stamped it viciousl
) under foot. We had skilfully clamb
cred over the stall before he got hi
D eyes we'll open. Now for his nos
, again. We wiped it as dry as his ex
I element permitted. But the syringe
:, the only one in town of the kind-wa
: ruined, and in few minutes his nos
was swelled up as big as a turnip an
ran like water power in a freshet.
needed a new handkerchief every hal
J, hour. His cough was no better. Hi
eyes were very bad. His ears begaI
: to droop. He shivered. All, yet
blankets,
A spare bed was Immediately divest
$ ed of its blankets. We put blapke
: around his neck, two on his back an
o one under his stomach. Not enough
The other beds were stripped. His hea
was tightly swathed, more blanket
9 put around his neck and body his yer
:, tail was blanketed. His legs wei
wrapped in strips of red flannel, an
nothing could be seen of him except
distorted mass of flannel flounderin
!, up and down, with its feet in tubs
! hot water. He soon began to swea
ping wet. The tubs ran over with Il
- flood of perspiration. Then they we
N taken off and wrung out. The hor
seemed glad to part with them. tn
mash was again offered him, but /
e. appetite was quite gone. 1t was ev
.ir dent that eastern remedies would n
er do for the epizootic out west. Advi
,ir must be called. We soon had it. T.
e. smoke of the fumigation had cans
se an alarm of fire, and q crowd had be
lin gathering for some time. Much Gu
NJ osity existed to see the first epizoo
,es in Emporia. We appealed 2espairin
ire ly to know what next to do.
re- Jones advised q remedy that h
En- proved effectual when he was east.
oy was hot water and mustard fore
mo down the animals throat to the !
er- most possible quantity. The mala
oil