412 MEDICINE. 



"painter's col c" is a chcumstance of too frequent occurrence the occasional drat 1 

 ful pains, and the ravenous appetite extending to everything that comes in the wat 

 of the animal. Active purgatives followed by cerium are the most effectual remedies 



The Jlcetate of Lead, Plumbi Acetas. Sugar cf lead is seldom given externally to 

 the horse, but is used as a collyrium for inflammation of the eyes. 



The Liquor Plumbi Subacetatis, or Goulard's Extract, or, as it used to be termed 

 at the Veterinary College, the Jlyua Vegeto, is a better collyrium, and advantageously 

 ased in external and superficial inflammation, and particularly the inflammation that 

 -ernains after the application of a blister. 



LIME was formerly sprinkled over cankered feet and greasy heels, but there are less 

 gainful caustics, and more effectual absorbents of moisture. Lime-water is rarely 

 used, but the Chloride of Lime is exceedingly valuable. Diluted with twenty times 

 its quantity of water, it helps to form the poultice applied to every part from which 

 there is the slightest offensive discharge. The fetid smell of fistulous withers, poll- 

 evil, canker, and ill-conditioned wounds, is immediately removed, and the ulcers are 

 more disposed to heal. When mangy horses are dismissed as cured, a washing with 

 the diluted chloride will remove any infection that may lurk about them, or which 

 they may carry from the place in which they have been confined. One pint of the 

 chloride mixed with three gallons of water, and brushed over the walls and mangei 

 and rack of the foulest stable, will completely remove all infection. Professor Mor- 

 ton, very properly, says that the common practice of merely whitewashing the walla 

 serves only to cover the infectious matter, and perhaps to preserve it for an indefinite 

 length of time, so that when the lime scales off, disease may be again engendered by 

 the exposed virus. The horse furniture worn by a glandered or mangy animal will 

 be effectually purified by the chloride. Internally administered, it seems to have little 

 or no power. 



LINIMENTS are oily applications of the consistence of a thick fluid, and designed 

 either to soothe an inflamed surface, or, by gently stimulating the skin, to remove 

 deeper-seated pain or inflammation. As an emollient liniment, one composed of half 

 an ounce of extract of lead and four ounces of olive oil will be useful. For sprains, 

 old swellings, or rheumatism, two ounces of hartshorn, the same quantity of cam- 

 phorated spirit, an ounce of oil of turpentine, and half an ounce of laudanum, may 

 be mixed together ; or or an ounce of camphor may be dissolved in four ounces of 

 sweet oil, to which an ounce of oil of turpentine may be afterwards added. A little 

 powdered cantharides, or tincture of cantharides, or mustard powder, will render 

 either of these more powerful, or convert it into a liquid blister. 



LINSEED. An infusion of linseed is often used instead of water, for the drink of 

 the horse with sore-throat or catarrh, or disease of the urinary organs or of the bowels. 

 A pail containing it should be slung in the stable or loose box. Thin gruel, however, 

 TJS preferable ; it is as bland and soothing, and it is more nutritious. Linseed meal 

 forms the best poultice for almost every purpose. 



MAGNESIA. The sulphate of magnesia, or EPSOM SALTS, should be used only in 

 promoting the purgative effect of clysters, or, in repeated doses of six or eight 

 ounces, gently to open the bowels at the commencement of fever. Some doubt, 

 however, attends the latter practice ; for the dose must occasionally be thrice repeated 

 before it will act, and then, although safer than aloes, it may produce too much irri- 

 tation in the intestinal canal, especially if the fever is the precursor of inflammation 

 of the lungs. 



MASHES constitute a very important part of horse-provender, whether in sickness 

 or health. A mash given occasionally to a horse that is otherwise fed on dry meat 

 prevents him from becoming dangerously costive. To the over-worked and tiied 

 horse, nothing is so refreshing as a warm mash with his usual allowance of corn in it 

 The art of getting a horse into apparent condition for sale, or giving him a round and 

 plump appearance, consists principally in the frequent repetition of mashes, and 

 from their easiness of digestion and the mild nutriment which they afford, as well as 

 their laxative effect, they form the principal diet of the sick horse. 



They are made by pairing boiling water on bran, and stirring it well, and then 

 covering it over until it is sufficiently cool for the horse to eat. If in the heat of 

 Hummer a cold mash is preferred, it should, nevertheless, be made with hot water 

 and the-a suffered to remain until it is cold. This is not dways sufficiently attended 

 V> by the groom, who is not aware lhat the efficacy of the mash depends principally 



