AMBULA NCE — A NTHRA X 



Ambulance. — Now that the street traffic has become so 

 considerably increased, common humanity demands that a 

 sufficient supply of properly equipped ambulances should 

 be available to remove the numbers of horses which are 

 injured. An ambulance should be padded inside by cocoa- 

 fibre mats, an extra thick one being on the floor, for hay 

 or straw are bad things to stand an injured horse on, as 

 they are apt to get entwined about his legs. The back 

 should be made to let down so as to form an inclined plane 

 by which he can enter the ambulance, which must not 

 be too wide, as a horse with an injured limb will very 

 probably require support. 



Anatomy teaches us the position, and the general 

 appearance of all parts of the horse. (See Conformation^ 



Anaemia, as its name implies, represents a deficiency 

 of blood in a horse, and its presence may usually be detected 

 by a weak pulse, and a very pale mucous membrane of the 

 eyelids. Swellings also appear under the jaw, and the belly 

 sometimes swells, whilst the horse steadily loses strength 

 and flesh, and diarrhoea supervenes. 



Treatment. — Check the diarrhcea, administer tonics, and 

 feed well but not unwisely, taking care that the horse is 

 kept warm and comfortable, but not deprived of fresh air 

 and light. (See Diarrhoza, Tonics.) 



Ankles. — See Fetlock, Pastern. 



Anodynes. — Medicines which relieve and soothe pain. 

 (See Medicines, Prescriptions^ 



Anthrax is, fortunately, a disease to which horses are 

 not particularly liable, but it can be communicated from 

 infected cattle or sheep, and can in turn be communicated 

 to man either by direct contact or through the medium 

 of foragfe. 



