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greatly relieve. Acetanilid, in doses of half an ounce, repeated twice 

 or thrice a day, may be employed to reduce the fever. If the great 

 prostration indicates septic poisoning, large doses (one-half ounce) 

 of sulphate of quinine may be resorted to. 



CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER. 



This is comparatively rare in the mare, though in some cases the 

 udder becomes painfully engorged before parturition, and a doughy 

 swelling, pitting on pressure, extends forward on the lower surface of 

 the abdomen. When this goes on to active inflammation, one or 

 both of the glands become enlarged, hot, tense, and painful ; the milk 

 is dried up or replaced by a watery or reddish fluid, which at times 

 becomes fetid ; the animal walks lame, loses appetite, and shows gen- 

 eral disorder and fever. The condition may end in recovery, in ab- 

 scess, or gangrene, and in some cases may lay the foundation for a 

 tumor of the gland. 



Treatment. The treatment is simple so long as there is only 

 congestion,. Active rubbing with lard or oil, or, better, camphorated 

 oil, and the frequent drawing off of the milk, by the foal or with the 

 hand, will usually bring about a rapid improvement. When active 

 inflammation is present, fomentation with warm water may be kept 

 up for an hour and followed by the application of the camphorated 

 oil, to which has been added some carbonate of soda and extract of 

 belladonna. A dose of laxative medicine (4 drams Barbados aloes) 

 will be of service reducing fever, and one-half ounce saltpeter daily 

 will serve a similar end. In case the milk coagulates in the udder 

 and can not be withdrawn, or when the liquid becomes fetid, a solu- 

 tion of 20 grains carbonate of soda and 10 drops carbolic acid dis- 

 solved in an ounce of water should be injected into the teat. In 

 doing this it must be noted that the mare has three separate ducts 

 opening on the summit of each teat and each must be carefully in- 

 jected. When pus forms and points externally and can not find a 

 free escape by the teat, the spot where it fluctuates must be opened 

 freely with the knife and the cavity injected daily with the carbolic- 

 acid lotion. When the gland becomes hard and indolent, it may be 

 rubbed daily with iodine ointment 1 part, vaseline 6 parts. 



TUMORS OP THE UDDER. 



As the result of inflammation of the udder it may become the 

 seat of an indurated diseased growth, which may go on growing and 

 seriously interfere with the movement of the hind limbs. If such 

 swellings will not give way in their early stages to treatment by 

 iodine, the only resort is to cut them out with a knife. As the gland 

 is often implicated and has to be removed, such mares can not in the 

 future suckle their colts and therefore should not be bred. 



SORE TEATS, SCABS, CRACKS, WARTS. 



By the act of sucking, especially in cold weather, the teats are 

 subject to abrasions, cracks, and scabs, and as the result of such irri- 

 tation, or independently, warts sometimes grow and prove trouble- 

 some. The warts should be clipped off with sharp scissors and their 

 roots burned with, a solid pencil of lunar caustic. This is best done 

 before parturition to secure healing before suckling begins. For sore 



