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It sometimes happens that horses receive injuries to the legs 

 during travelling, and the swelling, the result of such injury, is very 

 long before it is reduced. Some practitioners, in an obstinate case, 

 dress it with the biniodide of mercury ointment, Idr. to loz. of lard. 

 The ointment should be rubbed in every night till it produces a dis- 

 charge ; then foment with hot water instead, until the swelling of 

 the skin disappears. Repeat the process till absorption has taken 

 place. 



Hunters frequentl}' injure themselves when taking a fence or gate, 

 the result being lameness and a swollen limb. When this is ob- 

 served, administer a purgative, odrs. aloes, and keep around the 

 swelling a light linen bandage, to be kept continually moist with a 

 solution containing a wine-glass of tincture of arnica to half a pint 

 of water. Where the knee itself is affected, perhaps the best plan 

 is daily friction with iodide of potassium ointment. If the knee is 

 stained at all clean with milk. However, for very recent injuries 

 there is nothing like a cold water bandage. 



Bandaging and hand-rubbing are the only local remedies for 

 swelling of the hind legs ; but this frequently arises either from 

 constitutional w^eakness or from the kidneys not acting properly. 

 If the former is the cause, give one drachm of sulphate of iron 

 three times a week ; if the latter, five or six drachms of nitrate of 

 potass. 



TAR WATER, TO MAKE. 



Tar water may be made by filling a recently emptied tar barrel 

 with water, or a small cask may be smeared inside with tar. The 

 water will be fit for use in a few days. 



It must be given as a drench ; dose one pint. It is said to be 

 beneficial in chronic cough. 



TENDER SHOULDER. 



Bathe the affected part with a solution composed of a wine-glass 

 of tincture of arnica to half a pint of water, and drive your horse in 

 a flag-collar. 



Some horses' shoulders are naturally ver}' tender. Oil the inside 

 of the collar before putting it on, and after work bathe the shoulders 

 with water containing two drachms of tincture of arnica to the pint. 



THICK WIND. 



Everything depends on the food. Mix 2 bushels of oats, 1 ditto of 

 crushed beans, 1 ditto of bran ; give four feeds a day, mixed with a 

 good quantity of wheat straw chaff, the whole slightly wetted ; give 



