Local Diseases. 23 



Treatment, 



Sling the horse : foment with hot water for hours, then dry and 

 rub in kerosine oil as blister for two consecutive days. Or 

 pour jets of cold water from a height on the shoulder four 

 times a day, 15 minutes each time. Keep bowels open. 



General treatment consists of an embrocation of equal parts of 

 laudanum, olive oil, spirit of turpentine and hartshorn applied 

 after the first active inflammation has subsided. Complete 

 rest is essential to recovery. 



Dip the leg every hour in a bucket of cold water, instead of 

 bandaging it until swelling has subsided. Keep in loose stall 

 for three or four months, and then only give walking exercise 

 for another three months, when a cure may perhaps be effected. 



Apply cold water b andages of chamois leather for a fortnight, 

 put olfhigKdieefed shoe, give cooling diet and mild aperients. 

 When heat and tenderness have gone blister the spot affected. 



No cure. 



Incural^le ; but often does not prevent \^ro^^e doing ordinary work 

 well. 



Leave them alone, unless lameness is caused; in that case poultice 

 and blister, or use ossiline. See ' ' Prescriptions ' ' 



Firing best, blistering next best. If hot and tender, apply hot 

 fomentations, followed by cold water jets, as for shoulder 

 sprain. 



halt is attributed to the fact of horses eating dandelions in the green pasture 



