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rabid or poisonous animals should be treated in the same manner. 

 Persons have been bold enough to have allowed themselves to be 

 bitten by mad dogs no less than seven times, and then applying 

 the nitrate of silver as a caustic to the bites, never became affected 

 with the canine disease. However, too much dependence should 

 not be placed in any one measure as a protection in such cases. 

 The great protection is, do not allow yourself to be bitten at all, if 

 it can be avoided. 



Bites from a healthy dog will never produce madness, even 

 although the animal go mad in a year or two afterward, so keep 

 your mind easy on that point. 



Bladder Diseases. — 1. Inflammation. — This condition of 

 disease is sometimes met with, but is rare in horses. 



Causes. Irritating substances or foreign bodies in the bladder. 



Symptoms. Constant desire to make water, pain, straddling or 

 walking wide with the hind legs, great tenderness under the belly. 



Treatment. Inject a little warm oil into the bladder. This can 

 only be done by an expert and with a proper instrument. Give 

 25 drops of the tincture of aconite root every four hours, till six 

 doses are given, to keep down pain. Allow flaxseed tea to drink, 

 or drench the horse with it, which has an excellent soothing effect 

 Give plenty of cold water to drink. 



2. Calculi. — This variety of stone is sometimes found in the 

 bladder and kidneys of horses. This may be said to be the gravel 

 of the horse, although not so common as in man, but is equally 

 troublesome and requires for its cure a formidable operation called 

 Lithotomy, an operation of no great magnitude to an expert sur- 

 geon, but can scarcely be undertaken by an unprofessional person, 

 even though a description of it were given. 



Bleeding. — 1. Bleeding. — An operation for the drawing of blood 

 from the body, either locally or generally. As before stated, it is 

 almost entirely discarded from domestic practice, and should never 

 be used in the treatment of diseases of animals, however much 

 the adherent of an exploded and an erroneous system may 

 doubt it. Medicines will be described in this book that will not 

 only insure greater success in saving a very much greater percent^ 

 age of sick animals* and with less trouble in a much shorter time^ 



