DISEASES OF HORSES. 733 



toms will be more alarming; he may drop on the hind legs, 

 stagger, and fall, or he may lie down, get up, and again lie 

 down, showing some symptoms of colic, until he is unable 

 longer to get up. In other cases an animal will suddenly falter, 

 as if he had stepped on a nail or snag. In almost all cases 

 the ears and legs will be cold, and there will be pain in the 

 diseased parts, usually shown by the animal looking around, or 

 by an uneasiness and inability to remain in one position. If a 

 case is very mild, and it becomes puzzling to determine whether 

 or not this disease is the one, stand the animal in a stall for 

 twenty or thirty minutes, and then he will show stiffness. The 

 urine is always of a dark red or coffee color, and if it is kept 

 for some time in a vessel, a sediment will fall to the bottom. 

 This disease is often mistaken for inflammation of the kidneys. 

 If it is an ordinary attack, and proper remedies are used, the 

 animal often gets better in a few hours, and in a few da} r s will be 

 well. But when the pain is very severe, the pulse quick and full, 

 and the animal can not get up, it is an unfavorable case. 



TREATMENT. Give eight drams of aloes, dissolved in hot 

 water ; give when cool at one dose. Give injections of warm 

 soap suds freely until the physic begins to act, and in a mild 

 attack give sweet spirits of niter, one ounce three times a day. 

 Apply blankets wrung from hot water over the loins, and cover 

 them with dry blankets ; or if this can not be done, you may 

 apply one of the following : 



Take Aqua Ammonia, ...... 1 ounce. 



Turpentine, ....... 1 ounce. 



Flaxseed Oil, ....... 1 ounce. 



Mix, shake, and rub over the loins ; or 



Take Mustard, powdered, ..... 2 ounces. 

 Water, hot, 1 quart. 



Mix, and when slightly warm, apply as the above. 



If the water is not passed, a catheter (a long flexible tube) 

 should be used after being well oiled. In a mare, insert the 

 hand along the floor of the vagina, until the valve which closes 

 the neck of the bladder can be felt, raise this, introduce the in- 

 strument carefully until the urine begins to flow. In a gelding 



