88 THE NEW POCKET FABRIER. 



THE YELLOWS OR JAUNDICE. 



A distemper with which horses are frequently affected. 

 It is known by a dusky yellowness of the eyes ; the 

 inside of the mouth and lips, the tongue, and the bars 

 of the roof of the mouth looking yellowish at the same 

 time. The horse is dull and droops his head ; his 

 excrements are hard and dry and of a pale yellow, or 

 pale green colour ; he stales with pain and difficulty, and 

 his urine is of a dark brownish colour, and leaves on the 

 ground an appearance of blood. 



Young horses and fat ones are easily cured. 



Purge him ; give him bran mashes, green food, and 

 succulents, according to the season. Bleeding is seldom 

 necessary or proper, which the state of the pulse will 

 show. 



STRING-HALT. 



String-halt, in horses, is a sudden twitching or snatch- 

 ing up of the hind legs much higher than the other, to 

 which imperfection the most spirited and mettlesome 

 horses are . unfortunately the most subject. It is 

 generally brought on by sudden colds after hard riding 

 or severe labour, particularly by washing a horse, while 

 he is very hot, with cold water, a practice that cannot be 

 sufficiently reprobated. It may likewise be occasioned 

 by a blow or bruise near the hock. 



The opinions of authors about the cure of this com- 

 plaint are various ; some recommend cutting a tendon 

 which lies under the hinder vein of the thigh; others 

 the use of liniments, ointments, fomentations, &c. ; but 

 in general the cure is difficult, and seldom effected. 



