124 INDIGESTION HIDE BOUND. 



most prominent symptom ; and the animal appears 

 well in every other respect save that he does not 

 eat. The teeth should be examined and, if need- 

 ful, corrected. We should see also if the throat 

 is sore. In general, loss of appetite will be found 

 connected with a morbid or unhealthy condition of 

 the digestive organs, and will yield to a few doses 

 of the SPECIFIC for INDIGESTION, J J, fifteen drops 

 morning and night. This is also the appropriate 

 Specific for defective appetite or the weakness which 

 often remains after acute disease. 



Indigestion. Hide-bound. 



In consequence of over-feeding, bad food, sudden- 

 ly changing the kind of food, working the horse too 

 soon after eating too much food, or bad and uneven 

 teeth, which prevent the horse from chewing his 

 food well, the following condition presents itself: 



SYMPTOMS. The skin has the condition known 

 as hide- bound ; the horse sweats easily ; he is weak, 

 and can not work so long or with so much spirit as 

 in health, he is thin and does not fatten ; his tongue 

 is foul ; mouth slimy ; the dung is dry, mixed with 

 undigested oats, or it is slimy or bad-smelling ; the 

 water, is varible, scanty and thick, or clear and 

 abundant, and there is a short, frequent cough. 

 Sometimes he eats very greedily, and at others will 

 eat nothing placed before him, or will take one kind 

 of food and leave another, or he likes dirty straw or 

 his bedding better than the best oats or hay, or, in 

 some instances, his morbid appetite leads him to 

 lick the wall or eat plaster from it- 



