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Symptoms. — The excrement is very variable in color 

 and consistence, often hard and covered with slime ; at 

 other times soft, when the presence of intestinal parasites 

 can be detected. The urine is scanty, and either colored 

 or thickened with foreign material. The anunal is gen- 

 erally cross and irritable, and leaves the stable, at work- 

 ing time, very unwillingly ; he requires considerable urg- 

 ing while travelling, and, of course, is incapacitated to 

 perform his usual work. 



Treatment. — First, if possible, remove the cause. 

 If the animal has been fed on dry food, let him have a 

 mixture of boiled oats, shorts, and carrots, well seasoned 

 with salt, to which add daily half a table-spoonful of 

 v»^hite mustard seed; ^ pint of pale brandy to four 

 ounces of fine salt ; dose, a wine glass, in oatmeal gruel, 

 night and morning, just before meals. The animal must 

 not be permitted to spend half his time eating. Atten- 

 tion must also be paid to the water which the animal 

 drinks : throw a handful of pulverized charcoal, daily, 

 into the water trough. This will improve the very worst 

 kind. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE. 



This disease is so familiar to every one, that a descrip- 

 tion of it seems unnecessary. Its seat is in the membrane 

 which lines the inside of the eyelids and covers the white of 

 the eye ; when treated in the early stage, it generally yields 

 to very simple treatment. From this primary form of 

 disease others of a more alarming nature supervene. 



As prevention is much cheaper than cure, it is of great 

 importance to practice that system of management, with 

 respect to feeding, exercise, cleanliness and ventilation, 

 which is most likely to prevent it. It may be considered 

 under two forms — the common and manageable, and the 

 specific and fatal. The common inflammation is gener- 

 ally sudden in its attack. 



Symptoms. — The lids will be found swelled and the 

 eyes partially closed, and some weeping. The inside of 

 the lid will be red, some red streaks visible on the white 



