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young while snedding the coat. It, however, sometimes comes on 

 from over-feeding with heating food after having been taken from 

 grass. The mucous membrane of the roof of the mouth becomes 

 so swollen and tender that the animal cannot eat dry food. 



Remedy Take a gum -lancet and lance the gums. After 

 this is properly done, take a little fine salt and rub the gums with 

 it. If the gum-lancet is not at hand, a common pocket-knife 

 which should be very sharp for the purpose will answer equally 

 as well as the lancet. With the knife make slight incisions through 

 the prominence, or lance around the teeth, after which apply the 

 salt as above directed and, where the lampass is unattended with 

 any other local disease, the cure is made and the animal will 

 recover his appetite immediately. Lampass should never be burned 

 with a hot iron. 



LOCK-JAW. 



Symptoms Mouth rigidly shut, one or both sides of the 

 neck rigid ; in the former case the head being turned to one side 

 and in the latter stretched straight out; nostrils dilated, the eyes 

 retracted with the brows thrust forward over them, and the coun- 

 tenance anxious and strained. Pronounced cases are difficult to 

 treat. 



Remedies 1. Chloroform is a means of arresting the pro- 

 gress of the disease. Use from one to three ounces, by taking a 

 sponge and saturating it with chloroform, and keeping it close to 

 animal's nose until he is under the influence of it. Then take: 



Alcohol 1 pint. 



Capsicum 1 ounce. 



c Make a mixture and rub his legs, and also his spinal column. 



2. Give internally if possible tnree ounces of powdered lobelia 

 seed and one pint of warm water; rub hartshorn over the face and 

 neck; hold chloroform to the nose until the jaws open. 



3. Soften two plugs of tobacco in warm water and apply them 

 to the jaws of the horse. This has frequently been found to effect 

 a cure when other means have failed. 



LAMENESS OF STIFLE JOINT. 



Symptoms Heat and tenderness of the part; the limb is 

 advanced with difficulty. 



Remedies 1. Rest, with infusions of poppy heads, cold water, 

 and sometimes a cathartic, will be the proper means of cure. 



2. For chronic stifle lameness with adhesions, or infiltrations 

 of the tissues, a few applications of acetate of cantharides will 

 usually effect a cure. 



