DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 143 



Treatment.— If it is from the veins of the scrotum cast the 

 animal and plug- the cut with cotton batting- saturated with 

 Monsell's solution of iron and leave the plug in twenty-four hours 

 when it will be safe to remove without danger of bleeding. The 

 batting can be removed by placing a twitch on the animal's nose 

 and take it out without throwing him down. 



Bleeding from the artery of the cord is generally after the 

 operation has been performed with the ecraseur and it has failed 

 to close the artery of the cord, and when the animal gets up he 

 will be bleeding. In other cases it occurs from the horse pulling- 

 a clamp off by jumping a fence or catching it with his teeth. 



Treatment. — Throw the animal and secure him, get hold of 

 the cord and place a clamp on the end of it good and tight, this 

 will stop the bleeding, then allow -the animal to get up. 



The question has often been asked if a one-year old colt would 

 bleed to death by bleeding from the artery of the cord ? The 

 answer is : Yes, cases have been known where animals have 

 bled to death by bleeding" from this artery. The animal generally 

 bleeds some after castration, but so long as it does not bleed very 

 freely it need not alarm you, and by keeping the animal quietit 

 will generally stop bleeding of its own accord. 



RUPTURE (HERNIA). 



This is where the animal has a small rupture that was not 

 noticed before the operation was performed; or, in some cases the 

 aninial will rupture himself at the time of operation. 



Symptoms. — The bowels will be noticed to be hanging out of 

 the cut; there may be only a little — two or three inches, or a foot, 

 and it has been known to be so much that the animal would 

 tramp it under his feet. If the bowel is out verj- far, and becomes 

 strangulated and inflamed, the animal will be in great pain and 

 act as if he had inflammation of the bowels. The bowel will be 

 of a bluish-red color, and after a time, if left out, will become 

 mortified. The way this generally occurs is: There will be no 

 sign of the rupture during operation, but in a few hours the 

 owner will go back to see the colt and find him in the above- 

 mentioned state. 



Treatment. — if the bowels are out, and inflamed and bruised 

 with the hind feet, and he seems in great pain, there can be nothing 

 done but to destroy the animal. In cases where there is only a 

 small amount of the bowels out, throw the animal and secure him, oi 



