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drachms, tartar-emetic one ounce, rosin three ounces; mix and 

 pulverize, and then mix them with a half pound of lard. Anoint 

 every three days for three weeks ; grease the parts affected with lard 

 every four days. Wash with soap and water before using the salve. 

 The above is recommended also as an efficient remedy in outside 

 callus, spavin, ring-bone, curbs, etc. ; also for poll evil. 



FOUNDER. 



Symptoms Painful, inflammatory affection of tendons, 

 muscles, ligaments and extremities of bones, especially in the feet, 

 and has various degrees. In the lighter variety, the animal is 

 anxious, slow; the affected feet are warm and sensitive to pressure; 

 the animal likes to remain lying down ; when standing it puts one 

 or the other fore-leg forward, and rests principally upon the hind 

 feet. The appetite is not bad. In a higher degree, the animal does 

 not wish to stir; the feet are hot and painful; if only the fore-feet 

 are affected they are put forward and the weight of the body bears 

 upon the hind-feet; but, if all the four feet are affected, the animal 

 is tormented by anguish, trembles, and raises first one foot, and then 

 another. 



Remedies 1. The seeds of the sunflower are a well known 

 remedy for the cure of founder. Immediately on discovering that 

 your horse is foundered, mix about a pint of the whole seed in his 

 food, and continue this from time to time till a cure is reached. 



2. A horse may be worked the next day after being foundered, 

 and permanently cured in twenty- four hours by prompt use of the 

 following remedy. Boil or steam stout oat straw for half an hour ; 

 then wrap around the horse's leg quite hot, and keep steam in by 

 binding with woolen cloths. After six hours renew the appli- 

 cation. Some persons take one gallon of blood from the neck vein 

 in addition to the above. A. J. Smith, V. S. 



3. Among the remedies in use, for this difficulty, is alum. 

 Give a tablespoonful (dissolved) two or three times a day. 



4. For treating this disease in its early stages, place the 

 horse's feet in water that is as hot as he can bear, and letting them 

 remain for six hours, being careful to keep up the temperature of the 

 water, even increasing it as he becomes accustomed to the heat, you 

 will find him greatly improved at the end of the above specified 

 time. 



After this, use the Hoof-Ointment (see " Hoofbind "), 

 heating it into the bottom of the hoof with a hot iron, and immed- 

 iately afterwards give the horse a gentle laxative of powdered aloes 

 2 to 4 drachms, bi-carbonate of soda 1 ounce, in a pint of warm 

 meal or gruel. If the disease becomes chronic but little can be 

 done to relieve the stiffness. 



