351. BLACK SPOTS

To spot a white horse with black spots, take litharge 3 oz., quick
lime 6 oz., beat fine and mix together; put it into a pan and pour
a sharp ley over it; then boil it and you will have a fat substance
swim on top, with which anoint the horse in such places as you
design to have black, and it will turn to the colour immediately.


352. INFLUENZA OR HORSE-AIL

The first symptom is debility. The horse appears dumpish, refuses to
eat, mouth hot, in six or twelve hours the appetite diminishes, legs
and eyelids swell. This disease may end in chronic cough, a bad
discharge from the nose, and in inveterate cases in glanders.

Treatment--Keep the horse on light food, as mashes, scalded shorts,
green grass, &c., and if he is very plethoric, he should be half
starved and bled from the mouth. If the throat is sore, rub it with
warm vinegar and salt, or blister; walk him a little for exercise,
administer the following: oil of croton, 5 drops; nitrate of potassa
4 to 6 drachms; potassio-tartrate of antimony, 1 drachm; spirit of
nitric ether, 4 drachms to 1 oz; solution of acetate of ammonia 2 to
4 ozs.; and warm water sufficient to make a draught; and when the
head is much affected, add a drachm of camphor. This draught may be
administered once and sometimes twice a day, the croton oil being
omitted after the first dose; after the first day, 2 drachms of
powdered gentian may be added.