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predisposed to this disease, the greatest care, in addition to 

 maintaining the system by good feeding, should be taken to have 

 them dried and cleaned immediately after their being taken from 

 work. The ill effects of allowing horses to stand and get chilled 

 after exercise cannot be too carefully guarded against. 



SADDLE-GALLS. 



To prevent saddle-galls the saddles should be lined with some 

 smooth hard substance. Flannel or woolen cloth is bad. A hard - 

 finished, smooth rawhide lining, similar to those of the military 

 saddles, is preferable. Then, if the saddle "is properly fitted to the 

 horse's back, there will be no galls unless the norse is very hardly 

 used. Galls should be washed with soap and water, and then with 

 a solution of three grains of copperas or blue vitriol to one table- 

 spoonful of water, which will harden the surface and help to restore 

 the growth of the skin. White hairs growing upon galled spots 

 cannot be prevented. 



SCRATCHES, OK GREASE. 



Symptoms Scratches or Grease, is sometimes an aggravated 

 form of chapped heels. At others, it is ushered in by constitutional 

 symptoms, feverishness and hidebound. The first local symptom is 

 slight swelling of the skin of the heels and adjacent parts, whicli soon 

 cracks, and the fissures exude an offensive serous discharge, which 

 inflames every part it touches and spreads the eruption. The leg 

 continues swelling till a remedy is applied. 



Remedies 1. "Wash the parts twice a day with Castile-soap 

 and water, followed by an application of blue vitriol water. This is 

 usually sufficient to cure this difficulty. 



2. Kerosene oil applied once a day for three or four days, is 

 reputed a cure. 



3. After the inflamed skin has been subdued by applications 

 of carrot poultice, take alum 4 ounces, boiling water, 1 pint; wash 

 the affected parts thoroughly twice a day. 



4. In the case of confirmed grease, with icherous swelled 

 limbs, give internally 4 to 6 drachms aloes in a pint of water and 

 apply the following twice daily after cleaning. Acetate of lead 1 

 ounce, sulphate of zinc, ounce, water 1 pint. If the parts become 

 grapey apply a solution of sulphate of zinc. 



SNAKE BITES. 



Remedies 1. Give the horse, as soon as possible, two to 

 four quarts of whisky and apply clay made into a mortar, for twelve 



