84 THE NEW POCKET FARRIER. 



BARBS. 



Barbs are excrescences or knots of superfluous flesh, 

 found under the tongues of horses, and are to be easily 

 discovered by drawing them to one side. The cure is 

 to be effected by cutting them close off", and afterwards 

 washing the part with salt and water or brandy, nor 

 should the cure be postponed or neglected when a dis- 

 covery has been made of the disease, for though it may 

 appear as a trifling matter, it will hinder a horse from 

 drinking, and if he does not drink freely, he cannot eat 

 heartily, but will languish from day to day without any 

 one perhaps taking any notice of it. 



GIGGS UPON THE LIPS. 



Giggs, otherwise called Bladders, or Flaps ; are a 

 disease in the mouth of a horse, consisting of small 

 swellings or pustules with black heads, on the inside of 

 his lips, under his great jaw teeth, which will sometimes 

 increase to the size of a large walnut, at which ad- 

 vanced state they are so painful, that the horse will let 

 his meat fall out of his mouth, or keep it there unchewed, 

 sooner than attempt to eat it. These bladdders are gen- 

 erally produced from foul feeding, and are to be cured 

 by opening them with a sharp knife, and thrusting out 

 the kernels, or corruption, and afterwards washing the 

 place with vinegar and salt, or with alum water. But 

 if they should degenerate into the canker, it will be the 

 best way to dress them two or three times with honey 

 of roses, and spirits of vitriol, mixed in such proportions 

 as to be pretty sharp of the latter ingredient. 



RINGBONE. 



A hard swelling on the lower part of a horse's pas- 



