pursued, to draw it to a head and remove the offensirt 

 matter as soon as possible, in the same manner as direc- 

 ted for all other abscess mentioned before, not dieting or 

 reducing the horse. The degree of heat and inflam- 

 mation increasing in spite of the fomentations, &c. will 

 soon indicate whether suppuration will take place or not. 

 Indeed, that should if possible be known in the first in- 

 stance. 



False vives, or imperfect ones, that are hard and in- 

 sensible, sometimes cause a good deal of trouble. They 

 neither come forward nor recede, nor cause pain, but 

 are an eye-sore and injure the sale. Stimulating em- 

 brocations are well calculated for reduaing these hard 

 tumors, and the blistering oiiitment, made of cantharidea 

 and oil; never fails. 



LAMPERS, OR LAMPAS. 



Symptoms. — A swelling of the bars of the mouth fol- 

 lows the rising vigor and heat of the animal ; they then 

 project below the surface of the teeth, and interfere be- 

 tween them while feeding. The pain is necessarily very 

 great on feeding, and the animal ceases to chew of a 

 sudden ; it afterwards commences anew, with greater 

 caution , but as the disorder becomes worse, it refuses 

 food entirely, and starvation would be the consequence 

 if something did not intervene which is always sure to 

 happen. 



The cure would be effected of itself, if the horse 

 lived in a state of nature, or more probably in that stata 

 he never would contract the disease. Overgorging 

 and consequent fulness of habit having occasioned the 

 blood to flow luxuriantly towards the region of the head 

 and throat, so that the disorder is thereby produced, the 

 reduction of that full habit follows this compulsory ab- 

 stemiousness which the afHicted animal practices much 

 against his will, and might teach man himself a monitory 

 lesson he is usually slow in attending to until too late. 

 Reducing the system is the neatest method of removing 

 lampas, and purgatives should be employed ; bran 

 mashes, in which an ounce of nitre daily has been intro- 

 duced, may also be given until the pulse becomes more 

 natural. If the lampas be not lessened, by these means, 

 the projecting part is to be cut with a lancet, but some 

 people commence operations with tho searing iion, aa 



