150 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Inflammation of the Xiver. — The horse is rarely 

 tlie subject of inflammation of this organ in an acute, but 

 more commonly in a chronic form. It is often met with 

 from the fact of many horses being highly fed, and having 

 nothing to do. 



Symptoms. The affected part is very obtuse. But we 

 have a very striking analogy of this disease between man 

 and the horse, w^hich materially assists in forming a correct 

 opinion as to the disease. Pain and lameness in the right 

 shoulder are characteristic of liv^er disease, Avhether in man 

 or horse, and have often been mistaken for and treated as 

 the disease itself. Not less so is the peculiar yellowness of 

 the membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth, constituting a 

 disease called by old horse doctors the yellows. 



Treatment. Give powdered aloes, four drachms; pow- 

 dered ginger root, two drachms; podophyllin, one drachm. 

 Mix, and make into a paste Avith molasses, and form a 

 bolus, or crumble the mass in a little thin gruel, and 

 drench the horse Avith it. Feed the horse with green and 

 soft feed to keep his bowels open. 



These measures being neglected, suppuration or an 

 abscess will be formed, and break into the bowels, or 

 become absorbed and produce glanders, which I believe to 

 be a prolific cause of this disease, and which is preceded by 

 ill health and bad habit of body, terminating by a mysteri- 

 ous and unaccountable discharge from the nose, inasmuch 

 as it is not accompanied with cough, and other symptoms 

 of cold. 



Locked-jaw. — This disease occurs usually after 

 wounds of the feet, as from nails running into the feet, 

 from wounds and fractures, and from a simple wound of 

 a tendinous portion of the body. Locked-jaw occurring 

 after w^ounds or other injuries, is called traumatic. And 



