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and it appears as if some of the bones of the back or loins 

 were broken. 



Treatment. Give twenty drops of the tincture of aconite 

 root every four hours, whilst the symptom lasts. Build 

 up the strength of the mare by the following : Sulphate 

 of iron, three drachms ; gentian root, three drachms. ^lix, 

 and give in one dose every day, for a week or ten days. 

 Give good feeding. 



Caution, Unsafe to use; will return again. 



HYPODERMIC SYRINGE. 



Indigestion. — However much man, in the sedentary 

 walks of life, may be the subject of this disease, the horse 

 with a task-master is comparatively free from it. Cases 

 do occur, occasionally, in our large cities, where in too many 

 cases the horse is left standing in the stable, twenty out of 

 the twenty-four hours. Idleness begets indigestion, and 

 indigestion begets crib-biting, or wind-sucking, and between 

 them the poor horse looses flesh, condition and spirit. (See 

 Crib-biting.) 



Treatment. Send the horse to pasture, and when he 

 returns give him regular feed, and regular work to prevent 

 a return of it. 



Infection. — (See Contagion.) 



