172 The House Farrier. 



If the trouble can be traced to a carous tooth, let it be 

 extracted, or should the edges of a tooth irritate the in- 

 side of the cheek, apply the tooth rasp, and make all 

 smooth. If any irritation exists about the glands of the 

 throat ar I mouth, apply a stimulating application to 

 them, composed of hartshorn and olive oil. If some- 

 thing noxious in the food, give the following : 



Powdered bayberry bark, powdered myrrh, powdered 

 goldenseal, powdered ginger, powdered sulphur, of each 

 1 ounce. Mix ; divide the mass into eight parts, and mix 

 one in fine feed, gargles, composed of decoction of witch 

 hasel, bayberry bark, tincture gum catechu, and a solu- 

 tion of alum, either of which is good, when an astrin- 

 gent is indicated. 



No. 2. Mix a table spoonful of sulphur in salt, give 

 once or twice a week. 



No. 3. Burdock leaves are said to effect a cure. 

 Horses will not eat them only when they are troubled 

 with slobbers, and thus eradicate two evils at one time. 



SPAVIN. 



This is a very common and formidable disease of the 

 hock, and we have but little to offer by way of cure, and 

 the majority of cases may be pronounced incurable ; the 

 lameness may be in part or entirely cured, but the spavin 

 cannot be radically removed. The principal cause of the 

 disease may be found in breeding from old b roken down 

 spavin mares and worthless studs, but the exciting or 

 immediate cause, is strain, injury, over-work, &c. 



The weight and concussion being thrown principally 

 on the inner splent-bone, produce inflammation of the 

 cartilagenous substance that unites it to the shank-bone. 

 In consequence of it, the cartilage is absorbed, and bone 

 deposited ; the union between the splent bone and the 

 shank becomes bony, instead of cartilagenous ; the de- 

 gree of elastic action between them is destroyed, and 

 there is formed a splent of the hind leg. The disposition 

 to form bony matter having commenced, bone continues 

 to be deposited, and it generally appears in the form of 



