HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY 127 



R. Socotrine Aloes, 1 oz. 

 Nitrate Potassa, 1 dr. 

 Ginger, pulv., 1 dr. 



Mix with molasses, and form a ball ; follow this 

 iwice a day with Dr. R. Jennings's Condition 

 Powder. 



POLL-EVIL. 



This disease occurs in horses only when the 

 blood is in a morbid condition : it cannot live in 

 a healthy system. An hereditary predisposition 

 to this disease is frequently transmitted from 

 parent to oflPspring. Several cases have occurred 

 m my own practice where brood-mares having 

 been affected with this disease, and afterwards 

 having had several colts, and that, too, after the 

 disease had been to all appearances thoroughly 

 healed up, all of which showed the same disease 

 before they arrived at the age of three years. 

 One mare had three colts, another two, and several 

 one, affected in the same way. I do not think 

 better proof of hereditary predisposition can be 

 required. Many mares have this disease, and 

 their colts escape it, simply because, they do not 

 have the exciting or immediate cause to develop 

 it. Treatment. — The best and quickest means 

 is to cut it out well with the knife, when not too 

 long standing and deeply seated. After such an 

 operation, the wound should be washed with two 

 parts of water to one part of muriatic acid. Open 

 the bowels, and give Dr. R. Jennings's Condition 

 Powder to purify the blood. No corn or corn- 



