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Treatment. P'eed the animal on the best food that can be pro- 

 cured, and put forty dro})s of commercial sulphuric acid in half a 

 bucket of cold water tliree to four times in the day. Then get 

 two ounces each of tlie sulphate of copper and gentian root in 

 powder, and divide into eight powders, and give one night and 

 morning in the feed. 



Apply to the bleeding surface and sores a liniment composed 

 as follows: Olive oil, three ounces; creosote, one ounce ; mix and 

 use once in the twenty-four hours. (See Mouth Diseases.) 



Bloody Urine. — {See Kidney Diseases.) 



Blood. — Blood is observed to be of two colors, namely, red, or 

 almost of a bright scarlet. When blood of this color is issuing 

 from wounds in jets or jerks, it is considered more dangerous than 

 if it were of a dark-red, or venous blood. Tlie first is direct from 

 the heart itself and the other is from a more remote and less dan- 

 gerous part. 



It ma}^ be interesting to know that red globules are more plenti- 

 ful in blooded or well-bred horses than in horses of a coarser 

 kind, which accounts for a curious fact observed in the difference 

 of vitalit}'. Thus, a blooded horse bears up under diseased action, 

 and is cured, whilst a western or common horse will die under the 

 same disease. 



The fluid portion of blood is called liquor sanguinis, in which 

 the red globules or spheres float. When blood is drawn from the 

 body, it divides into two parts : the solid is called clot, and the 

 other is the serum. This serum was once relied upon, and is still 

 by the ignorant, as showing the existence of inflammation. It is 

 by the blood that the strength, wear, and tear of the system is 

 kept up. The heart is the organ by wdiich tlie blood is forced 

 through the bod3\ If the blood be thin and watery, it is called 

 hydronemia. (See Dropsy.) If pus be in the blood, it is then 

 called pyemia. (See Glanders.) 



Boils. — (See Saddle or Harness Galls.) 



Bots. — (See Worms.) 



Bowels, Disease of. — (See Costiveness, Diarrhoea, and Dj^sen- 

 tery. 



1. Inflammation of the Bowels. — Symptoms. Acute pain in 

 the belh^, and continuous, getting no intervals of rest from the 



