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INFLAMMATION OF STOMACH. 



Symptoms. The leg appears shorter, and, when the horse is standing, 

 is placed slightly under the body and not doubled up, or standing upon 

 the toe as is seen in diseases of hoek-joint. In nearly all cases of so- 

 called hip and whirl-bone disease, the true seat of disease will be found 

 to bo in the hock-joint. (See spavin.) 



In liip-joint lameness there is a dragging or swaying motion of tho 

 limb outward. An extra degree of heat will be found over this joint. 



Treatment. Give the horse absolute rest for a few weeks and begin, 

 when first allowed to rest, to apply cold water cloths over the hip- 

 joint, which continue one or two days or more, until the heat and 

 tenderness have been removed. 



Then apply Kendall's Spavin Cure two or three times a day for two or 

 three weeks, or longer if necessaryj and allow a week's rest after stop- 

 ing its use. 



INFLAMMATION OF STOMACH is caused generally by some poi- 

 son given to improve the coat of the animal. Some persons are in a 

 habit of giving powders composed of poisonous drugs to improve 

 the general appearance of the horse, and which, if given in proper 

 quantities and sufficiently diluted, so as not to come in contact with the 

 coating of the stomach while in its full strength, might perhaps do good 

 in many cases, but when given by an ignorant person it is sometimes 

 given not only full strength but in large doses on the principle that if a 

 little will do good a larger amount v/ill do more good. 



Symptoms. The horse is frantic on account of the excessive pain, but 

 the symptoms are not decided in all cases. 



The following symptoms occur, but not all in each case; nor do 

 they occur simultaneously. Great thirst; loathing of food; redness 

 of the membranes ; frequent eruc- 

 tations which smell bad ; discharge 

 of thick saliva; rolling, pav/ing, 

 colic, striking at the belly, panting, 

 tucked-up flanks, quick and small 

 pulse, passing mucus in large 

 quantities, straining, looking at 

 the abdomen, loss of strength, 

 convulsions, madness and death.. 



Treatment. Give at once two 

 ozs. tincture of opium, one and 

 a half ozs. sulphuric ether, and 

 two ozs. magnesia in one quart of 

 cold gruel or milk, and repeat ii 

 necessary. Suffeking from acute inflamma- 



If corrosive sublimate is known tion of the stomach. 



