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weakness and debility are present, })utrid ulcers spread rapidly. 

 Tlie treatment of putrefaction, in a living animal, should be di- 

 rected to laying open the sores, so as to get rid of the putrid dis- 

 charge before it is absorbed into the circulation. Then wash imme- 

 diately with the solution of the chloride of lime, after which 

 dress the sores with equal parts of olive oil and creosote, and 

 sprinkle them with powdered charcoal. Furnish the horse with 

 good feed to support the strength, and give sulphate of iron and 

 gentian root, two drachms each, night and morning. 



Putrid Fever. — (See Typhosus.) 



Pyemia. — This is a term signifying pus in the blood, acting 

 and setting up fermentations. Examples: Tubercles in the lungs, 

 glanders, farcy, and grease. (All of which see.) 



Quack Medicines. — These are medicines prepared according 

 to private or secret receipts, and are puffed up in newspapers, and 

 private circulars, as infallible cures for most all diseases which 

 can be named, in either man or beast ; either for external applica- 

 tion or internal administration. No subject in medicine has been 

 more fully exposed than the great and absurd pretensions of these 

 medicines. But, notwithstanding all this, the credulity of even 

 the best class of society is great, the readiest victims being found 

 among them. It surely reqtiires no argument to show how dan- 

 gerous must be the indiscriminate use of powerful drugs when 

 compounded by parties who likely never had the slightest oppor- 

 tunity to acquire a medical education, and why such persons can- 

 not cure, by their remedies, diseases which are, or may be, deemed 

 incurable, and have defied the most consummate skill and ex- 

 perience of the veterinary medical world. 



Quinsy. — A name given to sore throat. (See Distemper and 

 Influenza.) 



Quittor. — The term is used in England for a disease in the 

 foot of a fistulous character. (See Foot Diseases.) 



Rabies. — (See Hydrophobia.) 



Rachitis. — A disease of the bones of young animals, due to a 

 deficiency of earthy matter (lime), which causes the bones to 

 yield, being too soft. In colts of the first year, some will be 

 observed to stand so close at the knees, that one joint touches the 

 other^ which gives the fore legs a curious looking twist, with the 



