1 86 Manage77ient c^id Treatment of the Horse. 



tion stands upon its whole body like foam. The 

 animal is seized with almost insatiable thirst, and 

 will remain in a quiescent condition for some 

 hours, when another paroxysm will ensue ; these 

 fits will succeed each other at intervals for two 

 or three days, when a termination will be put to 

 them by death. It is neither safe nor wise to 

 keep the horse alive under such circumstances. 

 If the owner is uncertain if it is rabies, the 

 animal should be slung ; this will prevent it 

 injuring itself or others who have charge of it. 

 The symptoms, however, are well marked, and 

 the sooner the animal is dead and buried the 

 better, as there is no chance of its recovery. 

 When symptoms of rabies have manifested them- 

 selves it is vain to attempt a cure, but in cases 

 where horses have been bitten by dogs, whether 

 they appear harmless at the time or not, they 

 should have the wound deeply burned out with 

 lunar caustic. This incurable complaint is caused 

 by the bite of a rabid animal of some kind, gene- 

 rally a dog. Horses have been known to be 

 seized with rabies simply from having licked a 

 mad dog after death. The writer once saw a mad 

 horse in Knightsbridge Barracks, which broke 

 both sides of its bottom jaw in biting the manger, 

 and when found the next morning was trying to 

 seize the manger with the broken stumps of the 

 jaw, all its top teeth being knocked out and 

 its bottom jaw broken off just below the tusk. 

 The animal was of course instantly shot. 



