324 THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 



But exposed as domestic animals are to such varieties of 

 atmospheric changes, it seems natural that some provision should 

 be made for change or diminution of function. And thus we find 

 that, if a horse in a profuse sweat is suddenly exposed to a current 

 of cool air, the mouths of the exhalants close, putting a sudden 

 stop to transpiration: the result would be disease, and probably 

 death, (which now and then does happen,) were it not that the 

 fluids recede to some other surface. When the kidneys are its 

 receptacle, it passes off by the urinary organs ; when it recedes to 

 the digestive surface, a diarrhoea is the result. Should the lungs 

 be called upon to perform the extra labor, copious expectoration 

 is the result. In each of these cases disease is very apt to follow, 

 and therefore under no circumstances whatever should the cuta- 

 neous exhalation be checked. If an animal is laboring under any 

 form of disease, prescribe for that, and let him sweat. 



WARTS. 



These excrescences, arising from the cuticular covering of the 

 skin, are sometimes very annoying to horses, especially when 

 occurring about the eye, sheath, penis, or on parts which come in 

 contact with the harness. 



Warts are so familiar to every one, that it appears unnecessary 

 to enter into any description of them, other than to remark, that 

 they are at first composed of fibrin, which ultimately becomes 

 cartilaginous. 



Treatment. — A wart having a broad base should be treated 

 in the following manner : Take a common suture needle, and arm 

 it with a double ligature ; each ligature is to be composed of 

 three threads of saddler's twine, well waxed; pass the needle 

 right through the centre of the wart, close down to the skin ; tie 

 each half separately, with a surgeon's knot, as tight as possible ; cut 

 the ends off pretty close to the knot, and in the course of a short 

 time the whole will drop off. A wart having a small circum- 

 scribed pedicle may be removed in the same way, by tying a 

 single ligature round its base. If the exposed surfaces should 

 not heal readily, moisten them occasionally with tincture of aloes 

 and myrrh ; and if they show a disposition to ulcerate, sprinkle 



