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eating second crop clover, will be found treated of under the arti- 

 cle Salivation (which see). 



Slough. — The separation of a diseased or dead part from the 

 healthy portion. A slough may be of greater or less thickness, 

 and may include the skin and flesh to a considerable depth — as 

 from the centre of an abscess. (See Gangrene and Mortification.) 



Sores. — Healthy and unhealthy sores occur in, or on, all parts 

 of the body of the horse. Healthy sores are best treated by the 

 tincture of aloes, or myrrh, or simple ointment. (See Medicines 

 and Prescriptions.) Uniiealthy sores should be treated, first, by 

 the application of some caustic, or powdered blue stone, nitrate 

 of silver, or caustic potassa, which wnll make an unhealthy sore a 

 simple and healthy one. To be treated as the above. 



Sore Mouth. — (See Mouth Diseases.) 



Sore Foot. — (See Foot Diseases.) 



Sore Throat. — (See Catarrh, Cold, and Bronchitis.) 



Sore Back. — Re-stufF the saddle, and apply the tincture of 

 aloes or myrrh. 



Sore Shoulders. — See to the collar, and apply as in sore back. 



Sore Neck. — A variety of this disease presents itself about the 

 place where the collar usually rests and presses when descending 

 a hill in double team. The}^ are very troublesome and difficult 

 to heal, if the horse is kept at work, and cause great irritation and 

 uneasiness. Frequently, when the hand is laid upon it, the horse, 

 if he be a spirited animal, will plunge in the stall, and even kick, 

 how^ever quiet he ma}^ be at other times. 



Treatment. Apply simple ointment, and place a firm but strong 

 piece of leather over it, so that the collar, when put on, can rest 

 upon and slide over it, instead of upon the mane and neck. 



Soundness. — This is when a horse has nothing about him that 

 does or is likel}'^ to interfere with his feeding, working or general 

 usefulness. 



Spavin. — A variet}'' of disease afi*ecting the hock-joint. Spavin 

 is not now^ looked upon as in the days of Oliver Goldsmith and 

 William Shakspeare, because in the minds of those distinguished 

 men, and some of their readers of the present time, spavin is an 

 enormous enlargement of the hock of the horse ; \Vhereas, in some 

 of the worst forms of spavin, there is no enlargement at all, while 



