Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-05-10
TO PREVENT PINKEYE.

During the past few years owners
Of horses have been large losers of
horses labor and horses lives by a
disease commonly, but enormously,
called pinkeye. Local horse-doctors
have ignorantly treated it as such, and
the owners have continued TO use
horses afflicted with symptoms, there
by losing many valuable animals that
if properly used and treated would
now be as valuable as ever My opin-
ion is that by careful investigation
every horse that has been afflicted and
succumbed TO il, if the truth were
known, will be found 10 have had a
disease nearly allied TO. if not identi-
cal with, pneumonia. Many horses
have been taken suddenly while being
driven fast on a sharp, frosty day,
while others have got cold, seeming
ly slight at first and only showing the
usual symptoms of simple cold their
owners have kept them at work, and
in short time the horse developed
what was called pinkeye. BY care
fully following the disease through its
entire course, think that any intelli-
gent person will find il almost identi-
cal with pleuro-pneumonia-all its
general weakness, lassitude, swelling
of limb, and, finally, water thrown
out by the overcharged and imper-
fectly working vessels of the system
more especially the lungs. Why horses
should be troubled in this way, as
never very generally before, is mys-
terry for the wise ones TO attempt to
solve. The atmosphere may predis-
pose the horse 10 it, as il has seemed
to cause large increase of late wears
of pneumonia in man.
The thing for horsc-owners TO do is
to prevent and arrest the disease If
possible in IFS early stages. l believe
that fast driving on very cold day is
extremely dangerous TO horse, as
several horses in the very act of going
at a high rate of speed on our princi-
pal streets during the past winter
have actually given out there and then,
and these horses have not been driven
far enough to distress them in the |
least in warm weather. A horse in |
the stable where | had good one
wintering was taken. and they just
saved him. On inquiring Of the own
er If he had been driven fast, he said,
"Not TO my Knowledge" but on fur
Their inquiry | found that his hired
boy had been trying his speed in the |
farmers milk team. Ibelieve that in
almost every instance similar circum-
stances will be found to be the prime |
cause, and the horse has been kept to
his work instead of being kept in a
stable away from draughts of air,
dosed with good tonic and fed on light |
food, till he shows strong symptoms
of returning appetite. For a tonic l |
shall name something that viii sur
prise most, If not all, of .your readers.
II is a strong tincture Of quinine, made
from alcohol, water aud quinine pow
ders.'
Give the horse heavy doses three or
four times during the day and even
ing, and keep in u warm place with
light food, as said before.
The action Of the quinine is similar
10 that in the human being-a pre-
ventive OF fever, a gentle tonic and
thus assisting nature to
throw of the cold in natural way.
By taking these precautions I believe
many valuable horses would be saved,
and the so-called "pinkeye" would be
rarely known Wallace Monthly.