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fifteen days the red spots dry up and the scales fall off and the 

 animal gradually recovers. It is these scales which fall off that, 

 when they are carried to other animals, spread the disease. 



Treatment. — The treatment is simple : Keep the animal from 

 other horses, feed on soft food with lots of boiled flaxseed in it, if 

 in the spring- of the year, grass is best. Give 



Sulphur J pound. 



Nitrate of Potash or Saltpetre -^ " 



Mix thoroughly together and give a teaspoonful three times a 



day on his tongue, which is all the medicine he will need 



internally. Attend to the animal's general comfort, keep him 



warm and do not expose him to the cold, for this would be liable 



to kill the animal if it drove the rash in from the skin. Wash 



him all over where the scabs are once a day with the following 



mixture. 



Creolin 1 ounce, or 4 lauiespoonf uls. 



Rain Witer 1 quart. 



Shake well together and apply with a sponge or cloth and 



this will kill all the germs of the disease as they come out on the 



scabs; rub him once a day and this will keep the disease from 



spreading. The only danger in this disease is letting the animal 



get cold and driving the rash in from the skin, which poisons the 



blood. After the animal gets better it is best to gather all the 



straw and manure out of the stall he has been in and burn it, 



then close the stable up and burn sulphur in a dish, which will 



kill all the germs left in the stable. 



GLANDERS. 



This is a very contagious or catching disease in the horse, 

 and one of the most serious and loathsome diseases the horse is 

 liable to. It occurrs in two forms, chronic glanders and acute 

 glanders. This disease has existed for thousands of years, and 

 has been treated by every kind of medicine known, and nothing 

 has ever effected a cure. 



CHRONIC GLANDERS. 



This disease was common in this country when it was being 

 cleared up, and is now sometimes found in back townships. 



Causes. — It is due to germs poisoning the blood, and it is 

 thought that cases of catarrh and nasal gleet have terminated in 

 a case of glanders. Sometimes it has broke out in a severe form 

 while horses are on shipboard during the time of a storm, when 

 the hatches are shut down, but in a case of this kind there must 



