igb LIGHT HORSES I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



the veterinary surgeon, for that matter can do little more than 

 place the patient in the best possible hygienic conditions and 

 maintain the strength. More horses are injured than benefited 

 by the administration of drugs in this and many other diseases. 

 Good ventilation, keeping the horse's body warm and com- 

 fortable, and giving soft and easily digested food, are the 

 chief points to be attended to. If the symptoms are mainly 

 those of catarrh, then the treatment should be the same; if 

 the chest is affected, the treatment should be the same as 

 for pleurisy or inflammation of the lungs ; and when the bowels 

 are implicated the treatment prescribed for inflammation of 

 them must be adopted. When the legs and other parts of 

 the body swell, then they should be kept as warm as possible 

 by means of woollen bandages and rugs. Salicylic acid 

 should be given in one-drachm doses in a little thick gruel 

 twice a. day. When the animal is recovering, in order to 

 counteract the debility, it is advisable to give vegetable and 

 mineral tonics. The best of these for the horse are powdered 

 gentian and sulphate of iron an ounce of the first and two 

 drachms of the second in a ball once or twice a day. Boiled 

 linseed is advantageous. 



The horse should not be put to work until quite recovered,, 

 and even then this should be rather light for some time. 



Glanders and Farcy. 



These are not two diseases, but only one disease in two 

 forms ; we shall therefore treat of these as one disorder under 

 the name of glanders. 



Glanders is a virulent disease special to horses, but trans- 

 ferable from them to several other species of animals and to 

 mankind. It may affect every part of the body, but is most 

 frequently witnessed in the head or on the skin. It may be 

 chronic or acute, but it is generally the former ; both are 

 marked by fever, which is most severe in acute glanders. It 

 is very contagious, and can be produced by giving the poison 



