MALLENDERS AND SALLANDERS 



Fie 271.-Mallenders 



is of the first importance tliat the diet be carefully regulated and the work 

 be duly adjusted to it. Excess of highly stimulating food must be guarded 

 against. A liberal allowance of carrots and moist bran will prove useful 

 in maintaining a free and regular action of the bowels. Where constipation 

 exists a dose of physic may be required, and should the disease prove obsti- 

 nate an ounce of Fowler's solution of arsenic must be administered morning 

 and evening in the food. 



MALLENDERS AND SALLANDERS 



Eczema in a local form is seen in that condition of the legs known to 

 stablemen as mallenders and sallanders. Here the disease is confined to 

 the flexures or " bends " of the knees and hocks respectively. In the 



