HORSE— CARE AND MANAGEMENT. 



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in strength. When the iungoid growths 

 are very extensive, nothing but their 

 removal, either by the knife or by the 

 actual or potential cautery, will suffice. 

 The least painful plan is to slice them off 

 to a level with the skin and then just 

 touch the bleeding surface with a hot 

 iron, which will have the doubly good 

 effect ot stopping the bleeding and induc- 

 ing a healthy action. The glycerine may 

 then be applied, and next day the leg may 

 be treated in the same way as for ordinary 

 grease, described above. When the dis- 

 ease is of long standing, local applications 

 may cure it for a time ; but either it will 

 return, or there will be some other organ 

 attacked, unless the unhealthy state of 

 the blood is attended to. It must be 

 remembered that during the existence of 

 grease, this vital fluid is called upon to 

 supply the materials for the secretion 

 which is constantly going on. Now, if on 

 the cessation of the demand for them the 

 blood still goes on obtaining its supplies 

 from the digestive organs, it becomes 

 over-loaded, a state of plethora is estab- 

 lished, which Nature attempts to relieve 

 in some one or other of her established 

 modes by setting up disease. To avoid 

 such a result arsenic may be given inter- 

 nally, for this medicine has a special 

 power in counteracting this tendency. 

 How it acts has never yet been made out, 

 but that it does exert such a power is 

 thoroughly ascertained, and if the doses 

 are not too large it is unattended by any 

 injurious effect. Indeed, for a time it 

 seems to act as a tonic. The arsenic 

 should be given in solution and with the 

 food, so as to procure its absorption into 

 the blood without weakening the stomach. 

 A wine-glassful of liquor arsenicalis (i^ 

 oz.) should be poured over the corn twice 

 a day, and continued for a couple of 

 months, when it may be discontinued 

 with a fair hope of its having had the 

 desired effect. Should the skin, however, 

 look inflamed, a second course of it may 

 be given, and it will be found that if it is 

 given with the corn it will not be followed 

 by any injurious consequences. 



HORSE, Warts. — Warts are, generally, 

 only to be considered as eyesores; for, 

 unless they appear on the penis, they are 

 not injurious to health ; nor do they inter- 

 fere with work unless they happen to 

 appear on the shoulders beneath the col- 

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lar in a harness horse, which is very rare 

 indeed. They are, doubtless, very un- 

 sightly, and, for this reason, it is often 

 desired to remove them, which may be 

 done by first picking off the rough outer 

 surface, so as to make them bleed, and 

 then rubbing in, with a stiff brush, some 

 yellow orpiment, wetted with a little 

 water. This will cause considerable 

 inflammation, and in a few days the wart 

 will drop off, leaving a healthy sore, which 

 soon heals. Sometimes the whole wart 

 does not come away on the first applica- 

 tion, in which case a second must be 

 made. When the glans penis is completely 

 covered with warts, the best plan is to- 

 amputate it, as it requires the greatest 

 caution and tact to remove them by arsenic 

 or any other caustic without destroying, 

 also, as much of the penis as is taken away 

 by the knife. 



HORSE, Falie Quarter.— When, from 

 an accident, the coronary substance is 

 permanently injured, it ceases to secrete 

 sound horn, and a stripe of the crust r 

 defective in strength, runs all the way 

 down from the coronet to the plantar edge. 

 This generally happens at the inner quar- 

 ter, and is owing to the horse treading on 

 his coronet ; but it may also occur on the 

 outside, either from the tread of another 

 horse, or from some kind of external 

 violence. The result is similar to that of 

 a sandcrack ; there is no strength in the 

 affected heel, and lameness is produced. 

 The treatment is very much the same as 

 for sandcrack. In the first place, the 

 pressure must be taken off the quarter, 

 and a bar-shoe applied, so as to convey 

 the weight on the frog, as described under 

 the head of sandcrack. The heel of the 

 affected quarter should be lowered, and 

 thus further injury will be prevented. 

 The next thing to be done is to stimulate 

 the coronet to a healthy action by blis- 

 tering it, which must be done two or 

 three times, taking care that the blister is : 

 not of too violent a nature, and that the 

 skin heals before a second is applied. By 

 these means, a cure may sometimes bef 

 effected; but it takes considerable time,, 

 and until the quarter is reproduced in full! 

 strength, ok nearly so, the bar-shoe should 

 be continued. By its use, any horse with 

 a sound frog can travel very well on the 

 road, even if the quarter is entirely and 

 permanently separated from the toe by 



