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tracted a diseased habit, and the system become so 

 weakened, that very frequently change of food and 

 absolute rest for months are essentially necessary. 



Flannel bandages should be applied and bound 

 tightly, immediately after the horse has returned from 

 exercise, and the legs bathed from time to time in 

 warm salt and water, and exercise should take the place 

 of work, until the swelling disappears. Tonics may 

 also be used, as recommended in the previous disease. 



There is yet another form of swelled legs very pre- 

 valent among thoroughbred horses in the autumn, 

 which can readily be distinguished from the foregoing 

 by its inflammatory nature. It usually sets in on the 

 inside of the thigh, which is dreadfully painful to the 

 touch, and when the horse turns over in the stall he 

 will lift up the leg affected and hop on the other. Give 

 bran mashes at once, and otherwise prepare for and 

 give physic, and give alteratives for a week after the 

 setting of the physic ; and if it shows no symptoms of 

 disappearing give another dose of physic and begin to 

 give harder work after its operation. 



MAKGE. 



The disease known as mange is occasioned by the 

 existence of an insect which, no doubt, owes its exist- 

 ence to the accumulation of a mass of scurf and other 

 filth on the skin. It occasions unbearable itching, 

 which causes the horse to gnaw and rub himself from 



