212 Management and Treatment of the Horse. 



a quick motion of the flanks and a coldness of 

 the legs and ears. The swelling is in the form 

 of a tumour between the jaws, increasing with 

 various degrees of rapidity, occupying in some 

 instances the whole of the space between the 

 jaws, giving great pain to the horse while eating; 

 it besides manifests a great disinclination to feed. 

 This is accompanied by much thirst, but the 

 swelling prevents its drinking, and having drunk 

 a mouthful or two, it desists, after which, and 

 even after eating, it is frequently seized with 

 a spasmodic cough with suffocating symptoms. 

 The swelling is of one uniform body, and there- 

 fore difi'ers from the swelling of the glands in 

 common catarrh and the glanders. As the 

 principal source of this complaint consists in the 

 swelling between the jaws, the first thing to be 

 attended to is to bring the tumour to a supjDura- 

 tion. The first thing to be done is to apply a sharp 

 blister over the tumour between the jaws, and 

 for this purpose use Stevens' blister, or biniodide 

 of mercury. This administered in time will facili- 

 tate the discharge a week or two sooner than it 

 would otherwise take place if allowed to come to 

 a period naturally. It will also have a tendency to 

 draw out the inflammation from the mucous mem- 

 brane of the throat, and consequently greatly 

 ameliorate the cough. The old practice of foment- 

 ing and applying poultices to the tumour has 

 almost passed away, as they often proved inefi'ec- 

 tual from the great thickness of the horse's skin. 

 Shortly after the blister has been applied, a hot 

 linseed meal poultice may be added^ and repeated 



