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n. To Cure. — "Wash with soap suds, and apply the following solution: 

 Copperas, 1 dr., and blue vitrol, J 2 ^^-^ ^^ water, 1 pt., which will reduce 

 Inflammation, harden the surface, and aid the growth of new skin, if broken. 

 Never put on the saddle nor the harness while the place is wet from the 

 applicatioa 



Grease Heel.— [See Scratches, Grease, etc.] 



Heaves or " Windbroken,"— Necessary Caution in Feeding, 

 and Cure for Many. — " Heaves and windbroken are one and the same dis- 

 ease, the first being used to designate its mildest form ; and the latter when it 

 reaches its severest stages. It is in reality a kind of asthma caused by over- 

 feeding on clover hay, chaff, and other coarse, bulky and dusty fodder. The 

 disease is seldom known where horses are pastured all the year, and clover in 

 some of its species does not enter into the hay crop. If the horse has not had 

 the heaves so long as to be wholly beyond help, try feeding on corn stalks, cut 

 moist hay, with carrots, beets, turnips, potatoes, and other well known nutri- 

 tious roots. Keep the bowels open by laxative medicines, and for a tonic give 

 arsenic in 3 gr. doses for 3 or 3 weeks. Give the animal no dry hay, except a 

 little handful at night; and if you have good, well cured corn stalks, these will 

 suffice, with plenty of roots and cut hay (wet), with grain 3 times a day." — 

 New Yoi'k Sun. 



Remarks. — There are some veterinarians who claim that the air cells, or 

 some of them, are ruptured; when this is actually the case, there is probably no 

 cure; but before this has occurred, it has been claimed by M. Hew, a French 

 veterinarian, I think, that 15 grs. of arsenic, daily, for 2 or 3 weeks, as McClure 

 and Harvey, in their work on the horse, inform us, " with green food or straw, 

 and in some cases bleeding, was perfectly successful," in ten reported cases. In 

 one it returned after 3 months, which "speedily yielded to a repetition of the 

 same treatment. " The way to give it would be to sprinkle it in fine powder on 

 a few thoroughly chopped roots, 5 grs. , morning, noon and night. There 

 would be no danger in its use, stopping at the end of 2 or 3 weeks, or when the 

 difficulty has been fairly overcome. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER-Cause, Symptoms 

 and Treatment. — Cause. — A correspondent of the Blade, of "Watertown, 

 N! Y., says: " It is often caused by the abuse of diuretics, and the frequent use 

 of rosin, with the idea that it loosens the skin and improves the appetite, too 

 often results in this trouble. 



Symptoms. — "The symptoms are the passage of the urine in small quanti- 

 ties, and frequently, with evident pain. The animal turns and looks at the 

 flank; the hind legs are restless, and the tail is switched about violently, but 

 chiefly downward. The horse moves stiffly, and with a straddling gait of the 

 hind legs. 



Treatment. — " No diuretics should be given, but soft, mucilaginous food, 

 such as linseed (flaxseed) and oats boiled {% pt. to 1 pt. would be enough to 

 boil in a feed of oats), and given with cut hay and slippery elm bark tea. Thia 

 will relieve the organ better than medi.cines. After the inflammation has sub- 



