402 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



shows general disorder and fever. The condition may end 

 in recovery, in abscess, induration, or gangrene, and in some 

 cases may lay the foundation for a tumor of the gland. 



The treatment is simple so long as there is only congestion. 

 Active rubbing with lard or oil, or better, camphorated oil, 

 and the frequent drawing off of the milk, by the foal or with 

 the hand, will- usually bring about a rapid improvement. 

 When active inflammation is present fomentation with warm 

 water may be kept up for an hour and followed by the appli- 

 cation of the camphorated oil, to which has been added some 

 carbonate of soda and extract of belladonna. A dose of laxa- 

 tive medicine (four drachms Barbadoes aloes) will be of ser- 

 vice in reducing fever and one-half ounce saltpeter daily will 

 serve a similar end. In case the milk coagulates in the udder 

 and cannot be withdrawn, or when the liquid becomes fetid, 

 a. solution of twenty grains carbonate of soda and ten drops 

 carbolic acid dissolved in an ounce of water should be injected 

 into the teat. In doing this it must be noted that the mare 

 has three separate ducts opening on the summit of each teat 

 and each must be carefully injected. To draw off the fetid 

 product it may be needful to use a small milking tube, or 

 spring teat-dilator designed by the writer (Plate VIII, Figs. 

 2 and 3). When pus forms and points externally, and cannot 

 find a free escape by the teat, the spot where it fluctuates 

 must be opened freely with the knife and the cavity injected 

 daily with the carbolic-acid lotion. When the gland becomes 

 hard and indolent it may be rubbed daily with iodine oint- 

 ment one part, vaseline six parts. 



TUMORS OF THE UDDER. 



As the result of inflammation of the udder it may become 

 the seat of an indurated diseased growth, which may go on 

 growing and seriously interfere with the movement of the 

 hind limbs. If such swellings will not give way in their early 

 stages to treatment by iodine the only resort is lo cut them 

 out with a knife. As the gland is often implicated and has 

 to be removed such mares cannot in the future suckle their 

 coits, and therefore should not be bred. 



