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charge a thin sanious fluid of a reddish color and gluey 

 nature ; swellings of the legs, sheath, and belly, are usually 

 attending symptoms ; the respiration is quick ; the pulse is 

 full and accelerated, and there is a disinclination to move. 



For treatment, the extract of belladonna alone appears to 

 be a specific in this disease. It should be given in doses of 

 from one half to two di;achms, dissolved in a pail of water, and 

 given to the animal to drink. No hay should be placed be- 

 fore him ; soft mashes only should be allowed, until he is 

 convalescent. This treatment, so simple yet so effective, has 

 been pursued by the author's friend, Dr. Bowler, of Cincinnati, 

 and himself, for the last ten years, with uniform success, not a 

 single case having been lost. It is true that the disease is not 

 of very common occurrence ; yet during that period the author 

 has had over thirty cases. 



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Diseases of the skin are less numerous in the horse than 

 perhaps, most other animals ; a circumstance doubtless arising 

 from the great care taken of our better class of horses to keep 

 the skin clean, thereby promoting its healthy action. Mange 

 is identical with the itch in the human body, and is an infec- 

 tious disease, the intolerable itching being caused by minute 

 insects, called acari. They are first observed with the aid of 

 a powerful microscope along the mane and the root of the tail, 

 causing a scurfy appearance of the skin. This appearance 

 rapidly extends to the neck and body ; spots denuded of hair 

 will appear, which gradually run into continuous scabby 

 patches. As the disease advances, it thickens and puckers 



