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the tendon, as that is said to be impossible, though 

 some of its fibres may be injured, but inflammation of 

 the sheath through which the tendon passes), the cold 

 lotion bandaging just described, in connection with the 

 directions given under the head of " Shoeing " (page 

 80), will be found very serviceable. 



Grooms^ Requisites are usually understood to com- 

 prise the following articles : — a body-brush, water- 

 brush, dandriff or "dander" brush, picker, scraper, 

 mane-comb, curry-comb, pitchfork, shovel and broom, 

 manure-basket, chamois-leather, bucket, sponges, dus- 

 ters, corn-sieve, and measures; leather boot for poul- 

 tices, clyster syringe (requiring especial caution in use 

 — see page 148, note), drenching-horn, bandages (wool- 

 len and linen) ; a box with a supply of stopping con- 

 stantly at hand ; a small store of tow and tar, most 

 useful in checking the disease called thrush (page 125) 

 before it assumes a chronic form ; a lump of rock-salt, 

 ready to replace those which should be always kept in 

 the mangers to promote the general health of the ani- 

 mals as w^ell as to amuse them by licking it ; a lump of 

 chalk, ready at any time for use (in the same manner 

 as rock-salt) in the treatment of some diseases, as de- 

 scribed, pages 143 and 149. 



Singeing, there is little doubt, tends to improve the 

 condition of the animal ; so much so, that timid users 

 do well to remember that animals which, before the 

 removal of their winter coat, required perpetual remin- 

 ders of the whip, will, directly they are divested of that 

 covering, evince a spirit, vigour, and endurance which 

 had remained, perhaps, quite unsuspected previously. 

 In fact, in most cases, the general health and appetite 

 seem to be improved. 



