104 NAVIN OX THE HORSE. 



BLISTERS ON THE TONGUE. 



The tongue of the horse, though a very important organ, 

 is, fortunately, very seklom the seat of disease. It is some- 

 times affected by blisters of greater or less size appearing 

 along the under surface, and occasionally on the cheeks, and 

 characterized by the dribbling of saliva. The disease can not 

 be mistaken if the mouth be examined. 



Treatment. — The blisters must be nipped with a pair of scis- 

 sors, to let the fluid out of them. Then take powdered alum, 

 one table-spoonful, and myrrh, one tea-spoonful; mix, and wrap 

 ► up in a piece of thin muslin, and tie it around the bridle-bit, 

 and put the bridle on him for one or two hours every day until 

 cured; or, after clipping the blisters, mix burned alum and 

 meal, or bran, and scour the mouth three times a day with the 

 mixture. 



SLAVERINa. 



From certain causes the glands of the horse's mouth become 

 excited to secrete a great quantity of saliva, and it runs from 

 the mouth in the form of slavers ; it may be to such an ex- 

 tent, or so long continued, that the horse may be seriously re- 

 duced in strength and flesh by it. 



The principal cause of slavering is the eating of white 

 clover. But it does not afl'ect all horses alike. Some will 

 soon get used to it, so that it will not affect them. Mercury 

 will salivate the horse; the sharp edge or snag of a tooth, 

 or a rough bit, with a rough rider or driver, may cause sore- 

 ness or irritation of the mouth, and slavering. 



Treatment. — Get rid of the cause. If it is clover, or clover 

 hay, stop its use. If a broken tooth, take it out; if a sharp 

 edge of a tooth, rasp or file it smooth ; if a rough bit, change 

 it. In any other case, see that the horse has good, wholesome 

 food, and look to it that he is not laboring under worms or 

 indigestion. 



