The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-13
To Prevent Pfnkeye.

During the past few years owners Of
horses have been large losers OF horses
labor and horses lives by disease
commonly but enormously called pink
eye. Local horse doctors have ignorant
ly treated il as such, and the owners
have continued to use horses afflicted
with symptoms, thereby losing many
valuable animals that il properly used
ani treated would now be as valuable
as ever. Ally opinion is ti,at by careful
investigation. every horse that has been
afflicted and succumbed to it, II 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 driv-
ing fast, on sharp, frosty day, while
others have got cold, seemingly slight
at first, and only show NC the usual
symptoms of q simple cold, and their
own rs have kept them ut work. and in
a short time the horse developed what
was called pinkeye. By care ully follow
Jig the disease through its entire course,
l think that any intelligent person will
find it almost identical with pleuro-
pneumonia--all its general weakness,
lassitudc. swelling Of ! mbs, want of
appetite. and finally water thrown out
bv the overthargcd AMI imperfccly
working vessels OF the system
especially the lungs. Why horses
sh uld be troubled in this way, US never
very generally before, Is mystery for
the wise ones 10 attempt to solve.
The atmosphere ma prcdispose the
horse to it, as It has seemed to cause a
large increase of late years Of pneumonia
genus homo.
The thing for horse owners to do is to
prevent and arrest the dis ase II possible
in its early stages. First believe
that fast driving ON a very cold day is
extremely dangerous to q horse, as
several horses in the very act Of going
at a high rate OF speed on our principal
street 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 in
curing of the owner if he had been
| driven fast, h. said: mot to my
knowledge;n but ON further inquiry i
found that his hired boy had been try
| ing his speed in the farmer milk team.
| believe that in almost every instance
similar circumstances will be found tc
be the prime cause. and the horse has
been kept to his work instead of being
kept in stable away from draughts o.
air, dosed with good tonic and fed or
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 Of
four times during the day and evening
and keep in warm place with ligh
food, as / said before. r7 vata;.
The action of the quinine is similar tx
that in the human beings preventive
of fever, gentle tonic and stirnulant
thus assisting nature to throw of thu
cold in a natural way. aaa-l ifT egfl
BY taken these precautions i beliey,
many valuable horses would be saved
and the so-called ''pinkeye'' would b
rarely known. Cor. Waliace's Monthly