48 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Treatment Feed the animal on tlie best food that can be 

 procured, and pour forty drops of commercial sulphuric 

 acid in half a bucket of cold water three to four times in 

 the day. Then get two ounces each of the sulphate of cop- 

 per and gentian root in powder, and divide into eight pow- 

 ders, and give one night and morning in the feed. 



Apply to the bleeding surfaces and sores, a liniment com- 

 posed as follows : Olive oil three ounces ; creosote one 

 ounce ; mix and use once in the twenty-four hours. (See 

 Mouth Diseases.) 



Bloody Urine. — (See Kidney Diseases.) 



Blood. — Blood is observed to be of two colors, namely, 

 red, or almost of a bright scarlet. Y/hen blood of this 

 color is issuing from wounds in jets or jerks, it is considered 

 more dangerous than if it were of a dark-red, or venous 

 blood. The first is direct from the heart itself, and the 

 Other is from a more remote and less dangerous part. 



It may be interesting to know, that red globules are more 

 plentiful in blooded or well-bred horses than in horses of a 

 coarser kind, which accounts for a curious fact observed in 

 the difference of vitality. Thus, a blooded horse bears up 

 under diseased action, and is cured, whilst a western or 

 common horse will die under the same disease. 



The fluid portion of blood is called liquor sanguinis, in 

 which the red globules or spheres float. When blood is 

 drawn from the body, it divides into two parts : the solid 

 is called dot, and the other is the serum. This serum was 

 once relied upon, and is still by the ignorant, as showing 

 the existence of inflammation. It is by the blood that the 

 strength, wear, and tear of the system is kept up. The 

 heart is the oriran by which the blood is forced through the 

 body. If the blood be thin and watery, it is called hydro" 



