TABLE OF SYMPTOMS. 595 



DISEASES OP THE SKIN AND EARS. 



(Page 216—245.) 



ScEATCHES. — Thick, dry, scabby covering of the skin, coming in little patches 

 on the heel, which spread until they become one solid mass of scab and mat- 

 ted hair; itching of the parts 216 



Thrush. — Discharge of very oflFensive matter from frog and heel 218 



Cracked Heel, or Grease.— Symptoms like those of Thrush, but confined 

 to the heel 219 



Swelled Legs. — Inflammation of cellular tissue of legs, causing swelling; 

 pufl&ng out of the skin; lameness; stiffness of the joints; after a time cracks 

 appear, from which exudes a whitish-yellow, watery matter 223 



Swelled Ankles. — Swelling of ankle-joints 226 



Surfeit. — ^Pustules on the skin, from the top of which exudes a thin, whit- 

 ish, oily matter, forming scabs on the shoulders, neck, sides, and back part of 

 fore-leg 228 



Mange. — Falling off of the hair; skin dirty brown, loose, and flabby; scabby 

 eruptions on skin; peeling off of cuticle, leaving the parts beneath raw and 

 bleeding; burning and itching 229 



Hidebound 233 



Stiff Complaint. — Skin dry and contracted; joints stiff; muscles and ten- 

 dons of legs become stiff, and fairly seem to contract 234 



Warts. — Seed warts are small tumors on the eyelids, the nose, the sheath, 

 and adjoining portions of the belly, having little hard points, or grains. Blood 

 warts are spongy tumors, from which blood exudes on every slight irritation, 

 usually on hock and knee-joints, and the pasterns. They have great tendency 

 to spread; sometimes are very sore, raw, and bleeding 236 



Sorb Nose 239 



Saddle Galls. — Back of horse chafed and raw. Sometimes tumors form, 

 which discharge matter 240 



