DROPSY.
Symptoms.—The animal is sad and depressed, the appetite fails, respiration is performed with difficulty, and the belly swells.
Treatment.—Keep the animal on a light, nutritive diet, and give a handful of juniper berries, or cedar buds, daily. If these fail, give a table-spoonful of fir balsam daily.
CATARRH.
Symptoms.—Occasional fits of coughing, accompanied with a mucous discharge from the nose and mouth.
Causes.—Exposure to cold and damp weather.
Treatment.—Give a liberal allowance of gruel made with powdered elm or marshmallows, and give a tea-spoonful of balsam copaiba, or fir balsam, every night. The animal must be kept comfortably warm.