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bites in different stages and severities, and which, in all cases, was 

 the result of broken and im23erfect doors facing the northern ex- 

 posure, and behind which stood the hind legs and heels of the 

 horse. 



Treatment. If the legs be found, on opening the stable, to be 

 swollen and painful, rub the parts with snow or ice-cold water, 

 then follow gradually with warmer water, a degree or two above 

 freezing ; and when warmth is restored, bathe with weak spirits. 

 When the legs and heels break into sores and ulcers, apply, twice 

 dail}^ carbolic acid (in crystals), four drachms ; olive oil, four 

 ounces. Mix. 



Gangrene. — This is a name applied to, oris synonymous with, 

 mortification or death of a part, and is characterized by a livid or 

 black color. Gangrene is attended, or is ushered in, by a sudden 

 giving way of pain, which has often been mistaken for recovery. 

 When gangrene of an outward or external part takes place, there 

 is a change in the condition of the part, it assumes a different as- 

 pect, the swelling subsides, and upon touching the part a crack- 

 ling sound is produced, owing to the evolution of gas. 



Gastritis Mucosa. — This is a new name to many persons, even 

 well informed in diseases of horses, notwithstanding it is a very 

 common one in the spring of the year, assuming always an epi- 

 zootic form, and being closely allied to the epizootic catarrh, some- 

 times called typhoid influenza. (See Influenza.) The chief 

 difference in the symj^toms between the two diseases, is the absence 

 of a cough, which is always observed in influenza. The one dis- 

 ease attacking the lining membrane of the windpipe ; the other, 

 the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels, or, in other 

 words, the digestive organs, more than the respiratory. Gastritis 

 Mucosa is a fatal disease, if treated by low diet, bleeding, blister- 

 ing and physicking, because it alwa3''s assumes a low standard of 

 vitalit}'', or great weakness. Hence the horse so affected, and so 

 treated, has no chance for his life whatever. 



Si/mptoms. As before stated, the horse has no cough, and the 

 breathing is not disturbed. The breath and mouth are not hot or 

 dry, but often the mouth is slimy, and to such an extent that it 

 looks as if the horse were salivated. The legs soon swell, or be- 

 come rounded, or filled, as they are often called. The swellings 



