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of the attendants, proper treatment will restore the 

 horse to tranquillity and usefulness. But none but an 

 accomplished horseman should venture to possess such 

 a horse until it is cured of such habits, as the nervous- 

 ness or ignorance of the rider will only render the horse 

 worse, and drive him into a dangerous state of des- 

 peration. 



Lampas. 



Lampas is a fulness in the mouth of young horses 

 and is so generally confined to them as to be almost 

 an incontrovertible proof of youth. 



If lampas interferes with their eating, a little blood 

 should be taken away by scarifying the roof of the 

 mouth, or a dose of physic should be administered. 

 Until one of these two courses is adopted, the horse 

 is UNSOUND. 



As soon as the bleeding in the mouth is finished, and 

 the wound healed, or the medicine has worked off, the 

 horse will feed as well as ever, and is SOUND. 



This complaint would hardly be worth so much 

 notice if it were not for the barbarous and cruel prac- 

 tice, too commonly resorted to, of burning out or cau- 

 terizing, and so putting the animal to much unnecessary 

 pain, preventing him during several days from eating, 

 and magnifying a scarcely noticeable triviality into a 

 matter of consequence. 



