92 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



produced, and many a valuable horse destroyed. It is not uncommon 

 for wind-galls entirely to disappear in aged horses. 



A sligiit wind-gali will scarcely be subjected to treatment; but if 

 these tumors are numerous and large, and seem to impede the motion 

 of the limb, they may be attacked first by bandage. The rollers should 

 be of flannel, and soft pads should be placed on each of the enlarge- 

 ments, and bound down tightly upon them. The bandage should also 

 be wetted with the lotion recommended for sprain of the back sinews. 

 The wind-gall will often diminish or disappear by this treatment, but 

 will too frequently return when the horse is again hardly worked. A 

 blister is a more eff"ectual but too often temporary remedy. "Wind-galls 

 will return with the renewal of work. Firing is still more certain, if the 

 tumors are sufficiently large and annoying to justify our having recourse 

 to measures so severe ; for it will not only effect the immediate absorp- 

 tion of the fluid and the redaction of the swelling, but by contracting 

 the skin will act as a permanent bandage, and therefore prevent the re- 

 appearance of the tumor. The iodine and mercurial ointments have 

 occasionally been used with advantage in the proportion of three parts 

 of the former to two of the latter. 



The following formulae may be said to contain most of the remedies 

 necessary for the use of the amateur; when disease prevails, the safest 

 plan is to call in the assistance of a veterinary practitioner. 



When calomel or emetic tartar is given for the expulsion of worms, it 

 should be mixed in a small portion of bran mash, after fasting the animal 

 five or six hours ; two doses given at similar intervals will be most effective. 

 They must be worked off with linseed oil or aloes, after an equivalent 

 lapse of time; and as alkalies neutralize the effects of either of those 

 medicines, soap must be excluded if the form of ball is preferred. 



As an external stimulating application for the throat in cases of in- 

 flammation arising from cold or other causes, common mustard, mixed 

 with water as for the table is an excellent remedy, and is equal if not 

 superior to any of the more complicated nostrums. 



When cooling remedies are required to the legs, cold water is the 

 beet. The introduction of nitre and sal-amtnoniac will increase the 

 evaporation ; but great care is requisite to renew such medicated lotions 

 very frequently ; because when the refrigerating process is over, they 

 become stimulants; thus on ordinary occasions cold water constantly 

 applied with very loose linen bandages is to be preferred. 



TABLE SHOWING THE PROrORTIONS OF MEDICINES TO BE GiyEN TO HORSES 

 AT VARIOUS AGES. 



Calomel or Tartarizcd 



Antimony. Linseed Oil, Aloes. 



Grains. Oimces. Drachms. 



To foals 10 4 to 6 ^ to ^ 



Yearlings 15 to 20 6 8 1 IV 



Two years old 20 25 8 12 2 2^ 



Three years old 25 30 12 15 2^ 3^ 



Four years old and upward 30 60 1 2 pts, 4 6 



