DISEASES OF HORSES. 715 



TREATMENT. Just the same as for poll evil (which sec). 

 Use the knife pretty freely. Caustics and blisters will some- 

 times relieve a mild case; but the knife is safer and more cer- 

 tain, less severe, and causes the sore to heal much more quickly 

 than when caustics are used. If, when cutting, you can make 

 your opening at the lowest part, it is much better, but if it 

 passes down inside of the shoulder-blade this is very hard to 

 accomplish. After opening, the parts should be thoroughly 

 cleansed, and then syringed with 



Corrosive Sublimate, ...... 15 grains. 



Water 1 ounce. 



Or Carbolic Acid, pure, .... .2 drains. 



Water, ......... 1 pint. 



Or Chloride of Zinc, ....... 40 grains. 



Water, ......... 1 ounce. 



Use any of the above two or three times a day, after cleans- 

 ing thoroughly each time. And be sure to keep the outside 

 opening from closing or healing up, until the inside has healed. 



Sweeny Shoulderslip. This is a strain of the muscles 

 of the shoulder, and from a very peculiar bulging of the 

 shoulder-joint when the animal walks, it is called shoulderslip. 



CAUSES. It is most common in young animals, when first 

 worked to a plow or harrow, the jerking and jarring causing 

 sweeny. Sometimes it is caused by a wagon striking a stone 

 or other obstacle, and causing a jar. Or it may be caused by 

 jumping, slipping, or even by rolling in a stall. 



SYMPTOMS. Usually the first thing noticed is wasting of the 

 muscles of the shoulder, or an impaired action, which action 

 does not amount to lameness. In six or eight days it shows 

 plainly. The joint bulges when weight is thrown on it until 

 you might almost think the shoulder was partially dislocated. 



TREATMENT. Rest the animal for three or four weeks, turn 

 him loose in a large box-stall; this is better than turning him 

 out to pasture. When first injured bathe for three or four 

 days with warm water, and then 



Take Tincture of Camphor, 2 ounces. 



Tincture of Opium, ...... 2 ounces. 



Tincture Aruica, 2 ounces. 



