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lips fails to move tbem ; there is a constant sleepiness wliilo 

 standing, a drawing up of the feet, running eyes, stilY joints, 

 hard, dry skin, and great diHiculty in voiding the dung, -which 

 is hard, black, and dry. The appetite continues good. The 

 treatment should commence as soon as the symptoms are dis- 

 covered. It consists, first, in bleeding. "Where the disease is in 

 its early stages, take three pints of blood at intervals of two 

 weeks, in bad cases two or three quarts at intervals of a week. 

 After bleeding, apply corrosive liniment, with a small mop, to 

 the parts affected. The liniment should then be dried in with 

 a hot iron held near the skin, but in no case allowed to touch. 

 In mild cases apply for two weeks every other day. In severe 

 cases, use it every other day of every other week, until diges- 

 tion becomes improved, which is the sign of success. To relieve 

 the other portions of the body, give the horse a, tablespoonful 

 of stramonium three times a week, every other week, as Idng as 

 it may seem necessary. Stramonium is the seed of the thorn 

 apple or jimson weed ; it is the best known -horse medicine. 

 The horse should be allowed rest, quiet, and good housing 

 until fully recovered. 



Former methods of treating this disease by extracting teeth, 

 burning, etc., were barbarous, and are now worse than useless. 



SwiNNEY, or inflamation of the shoulder or hip, is caused by 

 a strain, and aggravated by diseases of the feet. The symptoms, 

 at first, appear only in the feet and legs, but may be distin- 

 guished from founder by the animal's unwillingness to lie down 

 and his evident suffering when compelled to do so by exhaus- 

 tion. There is great fever at the shoulder, the flesh becomes 

 hard, and the skin adheres. At this stage apply the corrosive 

 liniment three or four times a week, for a month or so, or 

 until the symptoms disappear. The second stage of swinney is 

 called big shoulder ; the flesh and tendons of the breast shrink 



