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by frequent drinks of water, and a drench of olive or cotton 

 seed oil can do no harm. The plan of reaching a whip or 

 heavy piece of rope down the gullet to push the substance 

 into the stomach is risky, in the hands of one not accustomed 

 to the anatomy of the horse. 



Lanipas is usually an imaginary trouble. Very rarely does 

 the membrane directly beneath the upper front teeth congest 

 and swell enough to interfere with feeding. When this 

 trouble is feared there is no c^uicker nor surer cure than feed- 

 ing a little corn in the ear. When biting off the kernels, 

 the horse naturally compresses the membrane or forces it 

 back. The burning of the lampas is cruel and unnecessary, 

 and if the swelled parts are cut, the cut should not be deep, 

 or danger will result. 



There is a widespread delusion that Hooks ^ so called, is a dis- 

 ease affecting the horse's eye. A barbarous custom among cruel 

 men is to forcibly destroy the membrane which keeps the eye 

 free from foreign substances, but the cruelty does not accom- 

 plish the desired result, though it may injure or destroy the 

 eye. The obstinacy of the membrane simply shows some- 

 thing to be wrong in the anatomy of the horse, just as the 

 tongue will indicate to the observing physician when the 

 stomach of his subject is out of order. To cut or disturb 

 the hooks in the eyes is as absurd as to doctor the tongue 

 instead of the stomach in the human case. 



Remove Lice by rubbing the animal with a solution of 

 sulphate of potassium, four ounces, and water, one gallon, or 

 with strong tar water ; or dust with Persian insect powder ; 

 or the skin may be sponged with benzine or quassia chip tea. 

 Any of the applications must be repeated a week later to 

 destroy the lice hatching in the interval. All blankets should 

 be boiled, and the stalls painted with turpentine, and 

 littered with fresh pine sawdust. 



