278 DICTIONARY OF THE VETERINARY ART. 



Tartar, Cream of. Used on horses to promote the secre- 

 tion of urine. 



Tenaculum. A kind of hook, for taking up an artery. 



Tendo Achillis. The great tendon, which is fixed or 

 inserted into the calcaneum, or projecting bone of the hock. 



Tendon. The white shining extremity of a muscle. 



Tenesmus. Continual efforts to void dung, without any 

 discharge. 



Tent. A piece of lint, or tow, smeared with ointment, 

 and thrust into a sore, in order to prevent a too hasty and 

 superficial healing. 



Thoracic Duct. The trunk of the absorbents. (See 

 Absorbents, part first.) 



Thrush. A disease has lately prevailed to a great extent 

 in the New England States, which deserves some consider- 

 ation. It is called thrush, and is supposed to be a disease of 

 the horse's frog, consisting in a discharge of matter from its 

 cleft, or division ; sometimes the other parts of the frog are 

 also affected, — become soft, ragged, and incapable of afford- 

 ing protection to the sensitive frog, which it covers. We 

 cannot agree with many writers, that thrush is a strictly local 

 disease ; for after it has passed through the different stages, 

 viz., inflammation, suppuration, &c, the whole system takes 

 up the diseased action, either by sympathy or irritation. 

 Hence the reader will see the folly of depending on local 

 agents, in the form of ointments, for the cure of the disease, 

 in which all the organs are more or less concerned. 



The internal remedies we recommend are alterative pow- 

 ders ; remove the cause, if any exist, in the form of bad 

 ventilation, poor diet, hard work, partial grooming, or the 

 sluicing of cold water on the legs. Let the animal have bran 

 mashes, with a few boiled carrots, every night. 



The local remedies consist in paring away the ragged or 

 uneven parts of the frog ; then wash the surface with castile 

 soap and lukewarm water ; afterwards with a solution of 

 common salt, in the following proportions : one tablespoonful 

 Liverpool salt to a pint of rain water ; then apply a small 



