HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



back part of the mouth to soo if the foreii^n body has lodged 

 there ; if so, try and pull it away. Send for veterinary 

 surgeon at once. 



CONSTIPATION. 



A confined or torpid condition of the bowels is of common 

 occurrence in the horse, frequently causing, in him, severe pains 

 in the belly (see Colic). Old age, and the habitual use of dry 

 fodder, are predisposing causes. During certain fevers, constipa- 

 tion is a marked feature, usually requiring to be slowly over- 

 come. Physic should not be habitually resorted to for this 

 purpose. Careful feeding is a more rational method. When 

 the liver is thought to be sluggish, a ball composed of half a 

 drachm of extract of belladonna, half a drachm of calomel, 

 and 20 grains of powdered podophyllin, made into a bolus 

 with linseed and treacle, and given occasionally, will be found 

 to do good. Green food and bran mashes are suitable as 

 dietary. 



DIABETES. 



This is a very common complaint amongst horses, and one 

 with which most horsemen are familiar, either through experi- 

 ence amongst their own horses, or as such gleaned through 

 information from others. It is a disorder intimately bound 

 up with disturbed or perverted assimilation of food materials, 

 resulting in an excessive excretion of water through the kidneys. 

 In the human subject, the urine often contains sugar — a 

 form of diabetes not common in the horse. 



A constitution previously weakened by some exhausting 

 disease, over work, and under feeding, coupled with bad sanita- 

 tion^ are of course serious drawbacks against a horse pulhng 



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