DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 817 



Hide-Bound. This usually arises from a deficiency in the quality or quantity of food, 

 and also frequently occurs in lingering diseases that emaciate and weaken the body. In 

 this disease the skin adheres to the body. Nutritious food in liberal quantities and variety 

 should be given. Wheat-bran and corn-meal made into a warm mash is excellent. Cut hay, 

 oats, carrots, potatoes, and other green food should also be fed. 



Influenza. (See EPIZOOTIC.) 



Inflammation of the Bladder. Inflammation is sometimes located in the body of 

 the bladder, and, again, only in the neck of it. 

 The symptoms are quite similar to those of 

 inflammation of the kidneys. The causes are 

 generally the presence of some irritating matter 

 in the urine, or stone in the bladder. If there 

 is considerable fever, give one scruple of aconite 

 every two hours. &quot;Where there is much pain, 

 the same quantity of belladonna may be given. 

 If the evacuations of the bladder are obstructed, 

 the careful use of the catheter should be em 

 ployed. Difficulty in urinating is sometimes due 

 to a foul sheath, and can frequently be relieved 

 by cleansing the same properly with warm 

 water and a sponge, and giving small doses of ^ e a^ve cut shoW 8 the location of some of the inter- 



,-.(.__ . nal organs of the horse. Fig. 1, the lungs; 2, the stomach; 



3, the colon; 4, the diaphragm; 5, the bladder. 



Inflammation of the Bowels. This disease is one which frequently terminates 

 fatally. The causes are various, and may be exposure to the cold, drinking cold water in 

 large quantities when warm,, overdriving, diarrhea, constipation, and sometimes it follows 

 violent attacks of colic. The symptoms are very severe, and continuous pain in the bowels. 

 It varies from colic in this respect, the latter being intermittent with intervals of rest. The 

 general difference in the symptoms between this disease and the latter have already been 

 given under COLIC (which see). 



When constipation seems to be the cause, a quart of raw linseed oil should be given. 

 It would also be well to give injections of warm flax-seed tea, or thin gruel, from which the 

 seeds have been carefully strained. These can scarcely be too copious, for the sooner the 

 bowels can be made to act without irritating them, the better. If the disease proceeds from 

 diarrhea, or over-purging, give an ounce of the tincture of opium, and twenty-five drops of 

 the tincture of aconite in a half pint of water. Give for drink, flax-seed gruel. If the cause 

 is other than those mentioned, give from twenty-five to thirty drops every three hours, also 

 injections of thin flax-seed gruel, or warm water, (the first-mentioned is best,) until the bowels 

 move. The belly should have blankets wrung out in hot water applied, and renewed as often 

 as every fifteen or twenty minutes, rubbing on first Over the belly with the hands carefully 

 ground mustard made into a thin paste with vinegar. This will act very quickly as a 

 counter-irritant, and will have a tendency to relieve the internal inflammation. 



Some veterinarians recommend bleeding, and there is quite a diversity of opinions 

 respecting it in this disease; we are inclined to the belief that in the large majority of cases 

 bleeding would be objectionable. Clysters of gruel should be continued for two or three 

 days in some cases, in order to keep the bowels open and free. 



The limbs should be rubbed with the hands to promote circulation, also bandaged to be 

 kept warm. The body should be kept warm, though not uncomfortably so, but the air of 

 the stable should be cool and pure. Avoid drafts of air in securing good ventilation. 

 Bran mashes and flax-seed steeped in hot water, together with green food should be given. 



