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daily. Fomentation of the abdomen or the application of a 

 warm flaxseed poultice may greatly relieve. Acetanilid, in 

 doses of half an ounce, repeated twice or thrice a day, or 

 sulphate of quinia in doses of one-third ounce, may be em- 

 ployed to reduce the fever. If the great prostration indi- 

 cates septic poisoning large doses (one-half ounce) bisulphite 

 of soda or salicylate of soda may be resorted to. 



LEUCORRHCEA. 



This is a white, glutinous, chronic discharge, the result of 

 a continued sub-acute inflammation of the mucous membrane 

 of the womb. Like the discharge of acute inflammation it 

 contains many forms of bacteria, by some of which it is man- 

 ifestly inoculable on the penis of the stallion, producing 

 ulcers and a specific gonorrhoea! discharge. 



Treatment may consist in the internal use of tonics (sul- 

 phate of iron three drachms daily), and the washing out of 

 the womb, as described under the last heading, followed by 

 an astringent antiseptic injection (carbolic acid two teaspoon- 

 fuls, tannic acid one-half drachm, water one quart). This 

 may be repeated two or three times a day. 



LAMINITIS, OR FOUNDER, FOLLOWING PARTURITION. 



This sometimes follows on inflammation of the womb, as it 

 frequently does on disorder of the stomach. Its symptoms 

 agree with those of the common form of founder and treat- 

 ment need not differ. 



DISEASES OF THE UDDER AND TEATS CONGESTION AND 

 INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER. 



This is comparative!}' rare in the mare, though in some 

 cases the udder becomes painfully engorged before parturi- 

 tion and a doughy swelling, pitting on pressure, extends for- 

 ward on the lower surface of the abdomen. When this goes 

 on to active inflammation one or both of the glands become 

 enlarged, hot, tense, and painful; the milk is dried up or re- 

 placed by a watery or reddish serous fluid, which at times 

 becomes fetid; the animal walks lame, loses appetite, and 



