102 DISEASES OF THE HOESE. 



Clean the foot well with castile soap and water before vising the 

 wash. 



Mange. 



Place your horse in the sun and scrub him thoroughly with 

 castile soap and water ; then wash him well with gas water, putting 

 in the water 2 drams of white hellebore to the gallon. Then change- 

 him from his old stable to another one. One washing generally 

 cures permanently. 



Thoroughly scrub the harness and put it away for six or eight 

 weeks, as a necessary precaution against the disease. 



Mange Treatment No. 2. 



Linseed Oil 6 oz. 



Oil Turpentine 4 oz. 



Oil Tar 4 oz. 



Mix. 



Fatal Disease of the Foot. 



The report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, 

 in the Commissioner's report of 1869, states that a number of horses 

 hare died of a peculiar disease of the foot, and says that diagnosis 

 shows a separation of the ligaments of the coffin-joint and the foot. 



It reads : " The foot turns up, causing the animal to walk on the- 

 ankle. The flexor-tendons are literally severed from the laminae, and 

 the foot will drop off by simply cutting through the skin with a 

 knife. None have ever been cured and no one appears to know 

 the cause of the difficulty. 



No cases so extreme as those described by the Statistician have 

 come to our personal knowledge, but we have little doubt that 

 it will prove on investigation, which we are making, that the cause of 

 the terrible malady is in the use of shoes of improper con- 

 struction, neglect of the form of the foot, a proper form of 

 which is so essential to health, and the too liberal use of 

 cold water on the feet and legs, when the animal was in a 

 heated condition, or too much dampness of the stable or pastures in 

 which the animals were kept, or, perhaps, all combined. 



