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

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