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observe the same precautions as those recommended 

 against cold, &c. (page 100), and keep your horses as 

 much as possible to themselves. 



In travelling, horses run great risks, and, of course, 

 such diseases are less likely to be contracted in first- 

 class hostelries than in inferior and hack stabling. 



Poll-Evil is generally occasioned by a bruise on the 

 head, behind the ears, near the neck, by pressure of the 

 head-stall, &c. (see " Haltering," page 17), when, if great 

 care be not exercised to cure the sore promptly, sinuses 

 or cavities will form, eating away into the more import- 

 ant parts of the adjacent structure. Here also, unless 

 an immediate cure be effected by the means directed 

 for the treatment of sores (see " Water-dressing," page 

 149, and "Zinc Lotion," page 147), accompanied with 

 the removal of the head-stall or any aggravating pressure, 

 the veterinary surgeon ought to be consulted at once. 



Avoiding the causes will be the best j)reventive of 

 this disease. 



Shivering Fits in general precede or are the com- 

 mencement of a feverish attack, therefore, in such 

 cases, no heating food must be alloM^ed. Substitute 

 hot mashes, increase the clothing, and administer a 

 febrifuge, as nitre, 2 drachms, repeated in two hours. 



Sldvers in the stable, proceeding from nervous sensi- 

 bility, are frequently the result of recent excitement, 

 caused by a band, an organ, or other unusual noise, or 

 even by the sudden entrance of the beast's own attend- 

 ant, the bounding of a cat, &c. 



Strangles generally attacks young horses about the 

 age of maturity, or when first stabled. Debility grad- 

 ually possesses them; the throat, and particularly the 

 parotid glands under the ears, are sore and swelled, 



