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178 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, the purpose :—Barbadoes aloes two drachms, Castile soap one drachm, common salt four ounces, water one pint. If there is much fever with difficult breathing, proceeding from an affection of the chest, it will be necessary to resort to aconite in ten-drop doses. Old veterinary surgeons used to bleed for this complaint, but the writer is inclined to think that it does more harm than good, as it has a tendency to retard suppuration, and in this complaint all our efforts are to promote abundant suppuration. Cooling medicine will be found of great benefit in this complaint, and two or three doses of the following will be found very beneficial :—Nitre one ounce, tartar emetic two drachms. If there is no fever the animal will soon manifest a desire to eat, and his food should chief! be oatmeal gruel, bran mashes, and green food if it can be obtained. Should these not keep the bowels sufficiently open, which is of great consequence in this complaint, then the above laxative must be given, which will have the effect of preventing eruptions, which often occur after this complaint, and nothing more will be required if it operates freely. If, however, the complaint is followed by weakness it will be necessary to have recourse to tonic medicine, which should be repeated daily, until the horse has recovered strength. The following is a beautiful tonic :— Quinine twenty grains, gentian two drachms, calomel two drachms, ginger two drachms ; this should be made into a ball and given every day. In bad cases of strangles, the parotid gland will swell to a great size, and even become ulcerated, and in other cases an accumulation of fluid
In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 171) will take place from the swelling of the duct, and cause the vessel to burst ; in this event a fistulous ulcer will follow, which will be found very difficult to eradicate. In such a case it will be necessary to call in the aid of a practical veterinary surgeon, as an operation must be had recourse to which can only be performed by an experienced and practical veterinary surgeon. Strangles seem incidental to the horse in all countries, and foreign veterinary surgeons conceived the idea of innoculating to produce a milder degree of this disease, which they performed with either part of the discharge of the nostril or matter from the tumour; in many cases this had a most beneficial result, being both shorter in its duration and milder in its results, but English practitioners seem to entirely neglect this. CANKER IN THE MOUTH. It is but a too common occurrence for the mouth of a horse to become wounded by the bit, which may be too acute at its edges or fit badly, and often I am sorry to say by rough usage from both groom and master. It is no uncommon occurrence to see a so-called gentleman, if his horse is a little skittish, pull at its mouth with a sharp bit with sudden jerks, or saw its mouth from side to side with a sharp twisted bit ; this treatment fre- quently wounds deeply, especially between the grinders and tusk where the bit rests, and it is no uncommon occurrence for the entire flesh to be torn off. The writer has had cases where the jawbone has been injured and pieces of the bone splintered off, and done by men who would be shocked at the idea of not beinsf considered
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