THE HORSE. 125 



weight on the horse. 1 once bought one at Boroughbridge 

 fair, which I soon after sold, and eleven weeks after, had 

 him returned fis a glandered horse ; but I kept him for 

 some time afterwards, and he neither infected others, nor 

 lost his flesh. This horse was bought from a miller, who 

 had overloaded him, which caused him to bleed at the 

 nose ; afterwards he began to run at the nose, and did so 

 duriTig tlie time that 1 had him, which was nearly half a 

 year. I do not pretend to cure this disorder. 



Symptoms. The matter discharged from the nostrils 

 of a glandered horse, is either white, yellow, greenish, or 

 streaked or tinged with blood. When the disease has been 

 of long standing, and the bones are fouled, the matter turns 

 blackish, and becomes very bad. 



The Glanders is always attended with a swelling of the 

 kernels, or glands under the jaws, but in every other re- 

 spect, the horse is generally healthy and sound, till the 

 disorder has continued some time, and the morbid matter 

 has affected other parts. 



If a thin, limpid fluid be first discharged, and afterwards 

 a whitish matter — if the gland under the jaw do not con- 

 tinue to swell, and the disorder shall have been recently 

 contracted, a speedy cure may be effected by applying the 

 following : 



1 oz. of iloHch. Alum., 

 1 do. White Vitriol. 



Powder these well, put them into a pint of warm vine- 

 gar, and syringe about an ounce up his nostrils every day. 

 This may do good if the disorder be newly caught. 



SCRATCHES. 



This disease is the forerunner of the Grease, and is a 

 hot oozing matter that breaks out hke kins, with a nauseous 

 smell. It is very ti'oublesome to a horse, causing his heels 

 to look red and angry, and to be very sore ; and sometimes 

 it is so violent as to render a horse lame, and unfit for use. 



If you do not bleed and physic as soon as you find 

 a heat in a horse's heels, you may seen have him laid 

 up with the Grease. Sometimes in slight touches of this 

 complaint, the heels are not hotter than usual. In that 

 case, take a little flour of sulphur, and spirits of wine, mix 



