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Apply this mixture twice a day ; and in all cases it will 

 soon effect a radical cure, or prove highly beneficial. 



SWELLED LEGS, OR WEED. 



This complaint is frequent and troublesome. The 

 causes are various and difficult to determine. Young 

 horses are most subject to this disease, especially if high 

 fed on being taken from grass. It is more common and 

 more severe in the hind legs. It frequently comes on 

 very suddenly. Sometimes it is only the shifting of an 

 inflammation from the lungs, intestines, or other parts. 

 Sometimes a general fever attends it, the pulse quickens, 

 the mouth is hot, and the horse ceases to eat. 



Remedy. Foment the legs with warm water, give a 

 good dose of physic, and follow it by a diuretic medi 

 cine. In very severe cases, bleed freely. The legs 

 should be well rubbed and slightly bandaged, and 

 gentle exercise used. The legs of horses that are over 

 worked frequently swell, without much pain, on stand- 

 ing a day or two in the stable. The legs of some horses 

 swell every night. This is owing to debility, either 

 general, or of the part. It may be owing to over work 

 or high keeping. 



Remedy. Give mild physic and diuretics ; use regular 

 exercise, and rubbing, and bandages around the legs. 

 Decrease the quantity of food a little, and give mashes, 

 and green food, if in the season. Attend to the general 

 management of the horse, to promote his health. 



RING-BONE. 



This is an ossification or bony excrescence on the front 

 of the smaller pastern bone, just above the hoof, and be- 

 low the fetlock joint; generally it is not very injurious, 

 but sometimes the same affection on the lower part of 

 the larger pastern, at the joint, causes much lameness. 



Causes. Colts that are kept on stable floors that are 

 cleaned daily, and not littered, are subject to this disease. 

 Low keeping, by weak ning the joints, has a tendency 



