The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

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less at the time or not, they should have the wound
deeply burned out with lunar caustic. This incurable
complaint is caused by the bite of a rabid animal of
some kind, generally a dog. Horses have been known
to be seized with rabies simply from having licked a
mad dog after death. The writer once saw a mad
horse in Knightsbridge Barracks, which broke both
jaws in biting the manger, and when found the next
morning was trying to seize the manger with the broken
stumps of the jaw, all its top teeth being knocked out
and its bottom jaw broken off just below the tusk. The
animal was of course instantly shot.
TETANUS OR LOCK-JAW.
This disease to human beings as well as to the horse
generally proves fatal, yet as the writer has been success-
ful in two cases, the mode of treatment adopted will not
be out of place in these pages. This disease does not
manifest itself of a sudden, but generally steals over the
system by slow and insidious means. It first develops
itself by the animal appearing heavy, dull, and unwell
for a day or two. It feeds sparingly, frequently half
chewing its food, then letting it drop from its mouth.
When it drinks, the water is gulped instead of the
ordinary mode of taking it. The action of the jaw be-
comes extremely imperfect, and the saliva trickles from
the sides of its mouth. The mouth at length can be but
imperfectly opened, and ultimately the whole of the
voluntary muscles of the neck and upper portions of the
shoulders become immovably fixed. After this there is