DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 101 



Mix in a pint of luke warm water and give as a drench every 



five or six hours until relieved of the pain. Twenty-four hours 



after you give him the drench with the aloes in it. If the bowels 



have not begun to move, follow up with a drench of one pint of 



raw linseed oil. Clean the manure from the rectum or back bowel 



with your hand twice a day, and give an injection of one half pail 



of luke warm water and a little soap. After the pain is relieved, 



and the bowels working, it is well to follow up with the following 



powders : 



Ground Gentian Root i pound. 



Ginger i " 



Common Soda ^ " 



Powdered Nux Vomica | " 



Mix thoroughly and give a teaspoonful three times a day in 



his feed. The powders will strengthen and tone the bowels and 



start the animal to thrive. Feed the animal on soft feed with 



plenty of flax seed in it, which will have a good effect on the weak 



bowels. In cases of constipation, where the physic does not seem 



to be acting right, a little exercise will often start it to work. 



DIARRH(EA. 



This is the very opposite to constipation, and is a disease where 

 the animal passes a large amount of fluid manure, which is due to 

 the congested state of the bowels, and is seen most in horses of 

 weak confirmation, as narrow chested and gaunt looking horses. 



Causes. — Where the animal gets a few feeds of rich food after 

 being used to poor food for a length of time. Sometimes from a 

 feed of roots, such as turnips and carrots, especially if they are 

 frozen. Also drinking stagnant water, which acts as a blood 

 poison ; and we sometimes have very bad cases caused by an 

 animal feeding on a sandy pasture, where the grass is short, and 

 in grazing the short grass takes up sand with it which causes 

 an irritation of the bowels. An over dose of physic medicine will 

 cause this, and when it is thus caused the diarrhoea is called 

 superpurgation. Diarrhoea is a disease very easily treated, as a 

 general thing, that is if the animal is in a healthy, strong condi- 

 tion. It is sometimes seen in nervous horses when they are put 

 in races and get excited. It is also noticed in excitable road 

 horses. In these cases it is due to excitement. 



SymptoniS. — This disease is very easily told. The animal 

 passes a lot of watery looking manure. If you examine the pulse 

 jt will not be much affected at first, but if the disease is allowed 



