158 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Maggots. — These are sometimes seen in neglected 

 wounds and sores, in warm weather. To remove them, 

 apply equal parts of creosote and olive oil, or a solution of 

 corrosive sublimate. 



Malignant. — A term applied to diseases of a fatal 

 character; as glanders, for instance. Why the term ma- 

 lignant should not be applied to such diseases as locked-jaw, 

 and inflammation of the bowels, which are so often fatal, is 

 one of the inexplicables of medical nosology or terminology, 

 not easily for me to understand. 



Malignant Epidemic. — English writers tell us that 

 a malignant epidemic has attacked horses on the European 

 Continent. Influenza is a disease from which scarcely one 

 per cent, should die when scientifically and intelligently 

 treated ; but by bleeding, blistering, physicking, and low 

 diet, a really simple and non-fatal disease is at once con- 

 verted into a fatal and malignant epidemic. 



Mallenders. — A term used by old books and horse 

 doctors, to designate a scaly condition of the skin back of the 

 leg and opposite to the knee. A term which certainly, to 

 say the least, should long ago have been blotted out of all 

 the books, as vague, uncertain, unmeaning. 



This scaly eruption is the result of dryness of the skin 

 of the back part of the leg, where the greatest and almost 

 constant movement of the joint is going on. The same 

 condition is seen on the face of some joints, and in others 

 on the back, from the constant mobility of the parts. 



Who has not seen scruffy or scaly heels of horses ending 

 with scratches ? (See Skin Diseases.) 



'hicilige. — This is a disease of the skin, and is caused by 

 a small mite called acari, which breeds and burrows in the 



