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GIRTH CUTS. Apply carbolic ointment or lotion, or Friar's 

 Balsam, or zinc ointment. See if edge of girth has got hard ; 

 if so, put on a bit of lambskin, hair side nearest body, or sew on 

 a piece of lint in several folds. 



The FitzWilliam Girth is a good preventive. (Sold for lis. by 

 Davis & Co., 14, Strand, London.) 



MILK-HEDGE. {Euphorbia.) When browsing or out hunt- 

 ing, the horse may accidentally run his face against this bush, 

 which is so common in the Deccan. The consequence is, that 

 very quickly the face swells so much that even the eyes are bung- 

 ed up. Prevent the horse rubbing its head, remove carefully any 

 bits of hedge still adhering, but don't touch them with your 

 fingers, as the juice is equally prejudicial to human beings. Then 

 bathe face with lukewarm water or any cooling lotion to allay 

 irritation till swelling subsides. 



PRICKLY PEARS. In jumping horses over these hedges, 

 thorns occasionally lodge in the legs or bellies and cause ulcera- 

 tion. The suspected parts should be gently searched by hand, 

 and if the thorn be detected, it can be extracted with tweezers. 

 A little cocoanut oil smeared over the part will cause hidden 

 thorns to come to the surface. 



PRICKS IN SHOEING. Don't let the shoe be renched ofi, 

 but draw each nail separately and examine it at once. If there 

 be moisture on it, the injury is there. If lameness be severe, 

 poultice foot for three days, and pare away the sole at the nail 

 hole. When all pain has gone, rub in hoplemuroma, or apply 

 chloride of zinc. If the case is verv bad with inflammation of 

 foot, treat as for QUITTOR. 



SADDLE -GALL. 8e9 Sore Back. 



SCROTAL HERNIA. A bit of the guts has slipped through 

 an internal rupture into the scrotum, and at first the symptoms 

 may be mistaken for colic, as the horse throws itself on its back 

 and kicks upwards to try and get the gut out of the scrotum (this 

 sometimes succeeds) ; but the horse, in addition, constantly gazes 

 at his scrotum, which drips with sweat, and keeps on drawing; up 

 and relaxing. The scrotum becomes permanently enlarged. 

 Stallions in India suffering from this injury may be constantly 

 seen, whilst their owners have not the faintest idea that rupture 

 has taken place. 



The only treatment is castratior.. 



SINUS. See Fistula. 



