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Remedies 1. This difficulty has been relieved by the use 

 of goose-oil. It is to be applied to the muscles thoroughly two or 

 three times a day. 



2. Sweet oil has been used in the same way with success. 



THUMPS. 



Symptoms This is a spasmodic action of the heart from 

 over exertion, and is distinguished by the throbbing. 



Remedies 1. Ordinarily there is no permanent cure for 

 this disease, although the animal can be relieved to a great extent, 

 by placing five drops of aconite on the tongue, and if the horse is 

 not relieved by the first dose, repeat the dose at intervals of one 

 hour until there is a change for the better perceived. 



2. Give the horse two or three quarts of strong brine, then 

 bleed in the third bar of the mouth. Give the brine while bleed- 

 ing. The object is to relieve the nervous system. 



3. The following is one of the best remedies known: 



Take whisky, 2 ounces; sweet spirits of nitre, ounce; nitrate 

 of potash, 1 drachm, in a teacupful of water. Repeat every half 

 hour until the horse has recovered. 



THRUSH IN FEET. 



Symptoms The direct cause of thrush is neglect and over- 

 sight in the management of the hoof. Its symptoms are a fetid 

 odor, combined witn morbid exudation from the frog and softening 

 of the same. 



Remedies 1. Apply twice a week, as long as it is found 

 necessary, a charcoal -poultice made of three parts hnely pulverized 

 charcoal and one part of bruised flaxseed meal, mixed with warm 

 water. Use the poultice at night. After removing it in the morn- 

 ing, dress between the clefts ot the frog with pyrohgneous acid and 

 tine table-salt mixed. Be careful to press the acid and salt down to 

 the very bottom of the cleft of the frog at each dressing, morning 

 and evening. The safest plan to adopt in cases of this kind is to 

 treat the disease both locally and constitutionally. For the consti- 

 tutional treatment take equal parts of finely pulverized sassafras - 

 root, lac-sulphur, gentian-root, ginger, charcoal and salt; incorporate 

 well in a mortar. One ounce daily is a dose. 



2. "Wet thrush is brought on by excessive wet or standing in 

 wet stables, causing the frog of the foot to decay. Dry thrush is 

 the result of extreme dryness. To cure either, take equal parts 

 lard and spirits of ammonia; till the bottom of the foot with this 

 and heat in with hot iron. Thrush almost always causes the foot 

 to contract, for which use the hoof -ointment ;" see " Hoof-biiid." 



