The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-03-01
To Prevent Finkeya.

Dur nI the pat lew years owners oi
horses have been large losers of horses
labor and horses lives by disease
commonly Iut enormously called pink
eve. Local horse doctors have ignorant
" treated it as such, and the owners
haze continued to use horses afflicted
with symptoms, thereby losing many
valuable alimals that if properly useh
AMI treated would now be rs valuable
as ever. My opinion is that by careful
investigation, every horse that has been
afflicted and succumbed TO it. if the
truth were known, will be found to have
had disease nearly allied to it, if not
| Identical with, pneumonia Many horses
have been taken suddenly, while driy-
ing fat, on sharp, frosty day, while
others have got a cold, seemingly slight
at first, and only, showing the usual
symptoms of simple cold, and their
own r have kept them at work, and in
short time the horse developed what
was called pinkeye. by carefully follow
Jug the disease through its entire course,
think that any intelligent person will
find it almost identical with pleuro-
pneumonia It's general weakness,
lassitudc, swelling of limbs, want of
appetite. and finally water thrown out
by the overcharged and imperfcctly
working vessels of the system-more
especially the lungs. Why horses
should be troubled in this way, as never
very generally before, Is q mystery for
the wise ones to attempt to solve.
The atmosphere MAJ predispose the
horse to it, as it has seemed to cause a
large increase OF late years of pneumonia
II genus homo.
The thing for horse owners to do is to
prevent and arrest the disease if possible
in It's early stages Eirst-l believe
that fast driving on Very cold day is
extremely dangerous To horse, As
several horses in the very act OF going
nj a high + tie OF speed on our principal
street during the past winter have
actually given out there and then, and
,he3e horses have not been driven far
enough to distress them in the least in
warm weather. A hor.u i'll the stable
where | had good one Wintering was
taken, and they just saVcl him. On i'll,
curing of the owner if he had been
driven fast. he said: Not to my
knowledge;" but on further inquiry |
found that his hired boy had been try
ing his speed in the farmer milkteam.
| believe that in almost every instance
similar circumstances will be found to
be the prime cause. and the horse has
been kept to his work instead of being
kept in q stable away from draughts Of
air, dosed with good tonic and fed on
light food. till he shows strong symp-
toms of returning appetite. Fora tonic
shall name something that will sur
prise most, if not all, OF Your readers.
1t is a strong tincture of quinine, made
from alcohol, water, and quinine
powders.
Give the horse heavy doses three or
four times during the day and evening,
and keep in warm pace with light
food. as | said core.
The action of the qunine is similar to
that in the human being Il preventive
Of fever. gentle tonic and stimulant,
thus assisting nature TO throw off the
cold in natural way.
BY taken these precautions believe
many valuable horses would be saved,
and the so-called ''pinkeye' would be
rarely known. Cor. lPailac5'S Monthly.