fO HORSE DOCTOR. 



By degrees the spasm extends and becomes every- 

 where more violent. The motion of the whole frame is 

 lost, and the horse stands fixed in the unnatural posture 

 which he has assumed. 



The foot is the most frequent source or focus of teta- 

 nic injury. It has been pricked in shoeing, or wounded 

 by something on the road. The horse becomes lame — 

 the injury is carelessly treated, or not treated at all. 



Remedy. — The system must be tranquillized. The 

 grand agent in accompUshing this is the copious abstrac- 

 tion of blood. Bleed until the horse falters or falls. 

 Twenty pounds have been taken before the object of 

 the practitioner was accomplished. 



Next in order, and equal in importance, is physic. 



Eight or ten drachms of aloes should be adminis- 

 tered. 



CRAMP. 



This is a sudden, involuntary and painful spasm of a 

 particular muscle or set of muscles. It differs from te- 

 tanus in its shorter duration, and in its occasionally at- 

 tacking the muscles or organic life. 



The attendant on the horse should endeavor to find 

 out the muscle chiefly affected. Give plenty of good 

 hand-rubbing. 



STRJNGHALT. 



This is a sudden and spasmodic action of some of the 

 muscles of the thigh when the horse is first led from the 

 stable. One or both legs are caught up at every step 

 with great rapidity and violence, so that the fetlock some- 

 times touches the belly ; but, after the horse has been 

 out a little while, this usually goes off and the natural 

 action of the animal returns. 



PALSY. 



The stream of nervous influence is sometimes stopped, 



