CHAPTER lY. 



COMMON AILMENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



Cold — Strangles: Gervase Markhams Quaint Description of — 

 Chronic Cough — Lampas — Roaring — Broken Wind — Me- 

 grims — Staggers — Colic — Diarrhoea — Costiveness — Diseases 

 of the Urinary Organs: Inflammation of the Bladder; 

 Difficulty in Passing Urine; Profuse Staling, or Diabetes — 

 Worms — Washiness — Cracked Heels — Lice in the Tail — 

 Splints — Chronic Rheumatism — Swelled Legs — Thrush — 

 Sand Crack — Corns — A Parting Word of Advice. 



f^ AM induced, in commencing this chapter, to so name 

 J it because, in so small a volume as this, it would be 

 ^ manifestly impossible to deal properly with, or even 



to touch upon, many of the more serious ailments to which 

 the horse is subject. I will only endeavour, therefore, to 

 indicate the ordinal y remedies for those disorders which are 

 most frequently met with in the stable of the amateur 

 horse-keeper. 



Cold, or, more properly speaking, Catarrh, is a frequent 

 complaint. The symptoms first appear in the horse's eyes 

 and nose. There is, at first, a slight weeping from the eyes, 

 liie air pas- sage is diminished by a thickening of the mem- 

 brane, which causes increased labour in breathing, and the 

 membrane lining the nostril is red, with a slight discharge, 

 which gradually increases and thickens as the fever heightens. 

 The causes of colds would fill a volume : Change of stabling, 

 leaving off clothing, sudden change of weather, and draughts, 

 are, perhaps, most frequently responsible. If the cold 

 remains a local one, a little care, warmth, and some hot 

 bran-mashes with a little nitre in them, will put all right. If 



