In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 171) 



will take place from the swelling of the duct, and 

 cause the vessel to burst ; in this event a fistulous ulcer 

 will follow, which will be found very difficult to eradicate. 

 In such a case it will be necessary to call in the aid 

 of a practical veterinary surgeon, as an operation must 

 be had recourse to which can only be performed 

 by an experienced and practical veterinary surgeon. 

 Strangles seem incidental to the horse in all countries, 

 and foreign veterinary surgeons conceived the idea 

 of innoculating to produce a milder degree of this 

 disease, which they performed with either part of the 

 discharge of the nostril or matter from the tumour; 

 in many cases this had a most beneficial result, being 

 both shorter in its duration and milder in its results, 

 but English practitioners seem to entirely neglect this. 



CANKER IN THE MOUTH. 



It is but a too common occurrence for the mouth of 

 a horse to become wounded by the bit, which may be too 

 acute at its edges or fit badly, and often I am sorry to 

 say by rough usage from both groom and master. It is 

 no uncommon occurrence to see a so-called gentleman, if 

 his horse is a little skittish, pull at its mouth with a 

 sharp bit with sudden jerks, or saw its mouth from side 

 to side with a sharp twisted bit ; this treatment fre- 

 quently wounds deeply, especially between the grinders 

 and tusk where the bit rests, and it is no uncommon 

 occurrence for the entire flesh to be torn off. The writer 

 has had cases where the jawbone has been injured and 

 pieces of the bone splintered off, and done by men who 

 would be shocked at the idea of not beinsf considered 



