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to climb up the wall. At times, ropes will have to be 

 used to keep him from pulling back, and becoming 

 unmanageable, thereby destroying harness, carriages, some- 

 times other horses, and even the stable itself. The power 

 of a mad horse is great, and a painful sight to see. Finally 

 he becomes exhausted, falls and dies. 



Treatment. The horse is not worth saving, and rarely 

 can be saved ; for nothing can, or will, give relief to a mad 

 horse, but bleeding, and this to so great an extent that 

 life does not rally, and the horse dies, a dull, stupid, and 

 immovable mass, unable to eat or drink. The brain is 

 pressed with fluid and lymph, between the pia mater and 

 the arachnoid. 



Hemove a mad horse, as soon as possible, from anything 

 of value, or that can be broken or hurt. Especially 

 remove him from other horses, so that he may not injure 

 them. 



Staked. — An accident to some portion of the body, but 

 most frequently to the belly, occasioned by leaping fences, 

 or it may be by the horn of an ox, cow, or bull. 



Treatment. If the injury be at the belly, the wound having 

 entered it to some depth, ascertain, with the finger, whether 

 any portion of the bowels is injured, or has escaped 

 through the opening. If so, and part of them be torn, 

 sew with small, fine, cat-gut, (such as is frequently used 

 by fishermen who employ artificial flies as bait,) and pass 

 the bowel or intestine into its proper place, closing the 

 wound in the same way as is recommended for rupture of 

 the belly, (which see.) If the skin is only wounded, treat 

 it as for simple sore. If the wound is in a fleshy part, 

 and the skin peeled or torn from the flesh, it had better be 

 clipped off, as it will not unite again, but shrink and dry 



