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THE DISEASES OF THE HORSE 



nioutli. Jf lliis is found to be the case the bhuldor should be immediately 

 hinced and with the evacuation of its contents early relief may be expected. 

 The sore surface should be sponged with a solution of alum or boric acid. 

 Vinegar diluted is a favourite remedy among breeders, but not so effectual 

 as those above named, since in a few instances a ragged ulcer is left with a 

 disinclination to heal up and foul-smelling breath. Alum is perhaps of all 

 remedies the best for mouth sores, and in the days of foot-and-mouth disease, 

 la"<'c rafijied sores might be seen almost healed with a few api'lications. 

 Old horses through irregtdarities of the teeth are liable to lacerated cheeks, 

 a id the tooth-rasp must be used lo prevent a recurrence of the trouble. 





HUISH LONDON S.E. 



FRONT VIE.W/ 



Fig. 00a.— C. EI. Iluisn's Tooth-rasp. 



The old-fashioned instrument was a clum.sy contrivance, needing a very large 

 amount of manual power and some dexterity, but with the instrument here 

 illustrated the hoi'se-owner will effect a saving in his corn that will soon 

 pay the cost of one. 



Sore throat. — By this term it is not intended to convey the idea of disease 

 of the respiratory tract, although an inflammatory condition of the fauces 

 often leads by sympathy or invasion to affections of the larj'ux (see 

 Laryngitis). 



When the throat inflames, as is evidenced by fulness and hardness of this 

 part, and there is difficulty of swallowing, the skin covering it should imme- 

 diately be severely sweated, or the larynx will be involved and irreparable 

 injury done. The tincture of cantharides diluted with an equal part of 

 spirit of turpentine and a little oil, maybe rubbed in with a piece of sponge, 

 until it produces irritation of the skin, which in a few hours will be followed 

 by a discharge from the part. Six or eight drachms of nitre may also be 

 dissolved in the water which the horse drinks, with some dilliculty, but 

 still, as he is thirsty, he will take it. Sometimes eating gives less pain than 

 drinking, and then the nitre may be given with a bran mash instead of the 

 water. 



CiiOKiNH. — This accident, which is of comparatively frequent occurrence in 

 other animals, is rare in the horse but attended with considerable danger. 

 It may occur in any part of the food passage from the back of the mouth to 

 the distant or cardiac end of the gullet. 



2'he Causes. — Bad teeth, imperfect mastication, fright, drn:king with food 

 in the mouth, impaction of foreign bodies or diseased condition of the 

 oesophagus. Imperfect m.istication, either from bad teeth or greediness, may 

 result in a pellet of food passiLg into the pharynx iu a condition unfit for 



