I7fi DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SORGERY. 



of perfection, from the hair of its dam, on which they had bce« 

 deposited, rather than from its own coat. The perfected ova, 

 being thus taken into the mouth, became first entangled in ita 

 mucus, and finally lodged in those shallow recesses at the root of 

 the tongue, where they became hatched. Some of these creatures 

 measured as much as three-eighths of an inch in length, and rather 

 less than one in diameter. They were firmly fixed, by their litti? 

 booklets, apparently to the innci surface of the mucous follicles. 

 Their free extremities were of a deep red color, and their bodies 

 of a yellowish brown.' " 



Treatment. — The only remedy for ridding the system of bots is 

 B run at grass, in the month of May. 



Gasteitis, or Inflammation of the Stomach. 



Acute inflammation of the stomach seldom, if ever, occurs 

 among horses as a spontaneous affection. It is usually occasioned 

 by irritating medicines or poisons, or food of an inferior quality. 

 "WTien an irritating poison has been received into the stomach, and 

 excites inflammation there, or when acute inflammation arises 

 from any cause, the symptoms which mark that inflammation are 

 pain, distress, and restlessness ; a loathing of food ; for, if any thing 

 be given by the mouth, it creates increased pain. The animai 

 breaks out in a cold swear, lies down and quickly rises again, be* 

 comes early and greatly prostrated in strength, and has a pulse 

 usually quick and much oppressed. Sometimes purging sets in ; 

 at others, the bowels are constipated. The disease is very apt to 

 run into gastro-enteritis — inflammation of the stomach and bowels. 



Treatment. — The general treatment consists in the administra- 

 tion of slippery-elm mucilage, and half-ounce doses of chlorate of 

 potass, two or three times per day. Should gas accumulate in the 

 stomach or bowels, give one ounce of hyposulphite of soda, dissolved 

 in a pint of warm water. The ordinary drink should consist of 

 hay tea, to which a small quantity of molasses may be added, 



Rurf URE OF THE StOMACH. 



Rupture of the stomach is always a fatal malady, over which 

 neither art nor nature has any control ; yet, the accident being one 

 r;f frequent occurrence, it liecomes necessary for us to know some- 



