General Management in Disease 



Sometimes the outer heel requires lowering. 

 A boot or pad is often fixed around the fetlock 

 to guard against this injury. 



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Depraved Appetite 



This is usually symptomatic of digestive disorder, 

 and animals affected in this way are not as a 

 rule thrifty. One of the commonest causes in 

 the dog is the presence of worms in the intestines. 



Some animals will eat all sorts of foreign 

 substances, and these, especially in cattle, are the 

 occasional cause of death. Treatment accordingly. 



Diabetes 



In this disorder there is an excessive discharge 

 of urine, usually of pale colour, accompanied 

 with a voracious appetite, and abnormal thirst. 

 There is a simple form of diabetes, very common 

 in horses, usually arising through feeding on 

 damaged fodder. It is known as Diabetes in- 

 sipidus, in contra - distinction to Saccharine 

 Diabetes, which is an uncommon disease in the 

 horse. 



Dogs are occasionally troubled with the latter 

 form of diabetes, and in them it is incurable, 

 whilst ordinary diabetes is very often present 

 in Tuberculosis of the horse. 



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