Local Diseases. 21 



Treatment. 



Destroy the animal and all his gear if professional assistance 

 is not procurable. Disinfect the stables thoroughly, and 

 watch other horses for symptoms of the same complaint. As 

 preventive, give two ounces of hyposulphate of soda with 

 each meal for two or three months. 



Change of air to hill station is a specific cure. Apply marigold 

 ointment, or carbolic acid, or solution of bluestone externally, 

 and give laxative food, followed by tonics. But treatment 

 which may quite cure two horses will perhaps entirely fail with 

 a third in same stable. Don't buy a horse which you know by 

 the marks has before had the disease. 



Incurable. But horse may go on working steadily for years 

 after lumps have appeared. 



Apply solution of 1 part chloride of soda with 24 of water : or 

 chloride of zinc by day, and marigold ointment at night. Be 

 careful to keep flies off. 



Acute abscess requires warm fomentations and poultices to bring 

 on the formation of matter, and then to be lanced to get rid of 

 the matter. Don' t ram tow into the hole, but simply wash it 

 clean and apply weak solution of carbohc acid. If the abscess 

 be near a joint, instead of lancing, allow it to burst of its own 

 accord. 



Steadv exercise morning and evening. Change of air if possible. 

 Laxative food, followed by tonics. 



Don't blister or fire, but hand-rub and apply warm fomentations 

 and flannel bandages. Attend to diet, and exercise gently. If 

 from debiUty, give tonics. 



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