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

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 1*73
is in fact a preparation of mercury) which not unfre-
quently happens with horses of delicate constitution,
the following purgative should be given :—Kochelle
salts seven ounces, sulphur two and a-quarter ounces,
mixed with liquorice powder and treacle, and formed
into a ball, to be repeated for two or three days.
If the limbs are much swollen the carbonate of potass
may be given every time the animal drinks. Warm
fomentations should be constantly applied to the limbs
with cloths, as hot as the animal can bear it, or flannel
bandages, put on and kept constantly wet with hot water,
as hot as a man can bear his hand in it. After all
treatment, even the most successful kind, I doubt if it
is entirely got out of the system, as all animals, having
once had farcy, are liable to a return of it at any time.
NASAL GLEET.
This is another disease that has sometimes been
mistaken for glanders, but it is quite distinct from it in
its affecting both nostrils, and also being a discharge of
clear pus. There is a constant discharge of a thickish
fluid from the nostrils, proceeding from the mucous
membrane which lines the nostrils in the internal
cavity. This disease is frequently brought on by the
effects ol a long-continued discharge from catarrh or
cold. It is unattended with any feverish symptoms
the flow of this thick mucous gleet is often very con-
siderable and variable in colour. When the horse is
living upon green food it often assumes a greenish hue,
and sometimes even a grass-green colour. If its diet is
of dry food, and it is kept in the stable, then it assumes