184 TIIE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 



for without a knowledge of its fundamental principles we cannot 

 cure disease. 



Having then removed the patient to a healthy location, we 

 make some sort of change in the diet, calculated to have an 

 alterative effect. All green fodder may be considered altera- 

 tive ; and after a horse has been kept up for some time, and fed 

 on stable provender, any description of green succulent herbage 

 may be given, with the assurance that it will have a sanatory effect. 



The medicine best calculated to cooperate with hygienic 



means, is 



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Powdered sassafras, 



" skunk cabbage, £ ... of each 3 ounces, 



" gentian, 



" sulphur, 2 ounces, 



" elm bark, 8 ounces, 



" ginger, 2 ounces, 



" salt, 3 ounces. 



Mix ; divide into twelve powders, and give one every night in 

 the food. 



The following antispasmodic preparation must be applied to 

 the eye two or three times a day : — 



Tincture of Indian hemp, {canabis sativus Indicus,) . . 1 ounce. 

 Rain water, 1 pint. 



DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



PALSY. — {Paralysis.-) 



There are three varieties of paralysis to which horses are sub- 

 ject. — Variety 1. Hemiplegia, — affecting one half of the body, 

 longitudinally, that is to say, the limbs and body of one side 

 only. Should the animal have a sudden attack, and, without 

 warning, in an instant fall down, and remain there on the affected 

 side, deprived of the power to raise himself, hemiplegia is then 

 considered " complete ; " whereas, in " incomplete " hemiplegia, 

 the horse remains standing, although, if urged to move, the ex- 

 tensors of the limbs seem to have lost their power, and the latter 

 are merely dragged along. We remember treating a case of 



