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with alcohol or whisky and mustard, and bandage. As 

 soon as conciousness is regained, give as a physic, one 

 quart of raw linseed oil. 



Price of remedies Nos. 60 and 61 complete, $1.00. 



SWINNEY— SWEENEY. 

 (Atrophy of the Muscles.) 



Swinney is a shrinking away of muscles of any part of 

 the body, but is most frequently met with in the shoulders 

 and hips. It is produced by improper action or dis- 

 continued use of the muscles, and results from any dis- 

 ease or afiection that causes lameness. It is also caused 

 from bruises or heavy pulling. A young horse that is 

 compelled to follow the furrow while plowing in the spring 

 of the year, when the muscles are soft, is extremely hable 

 to swinney of the shoulder. 



SYMPTOMS: — Instead of the round full muscles, you 

 will observe a flattened or hollow space, indicating the 

 wasting away of a muscle. In shoulder swinney, at the 

 onset, usually there is swelling, heat and tenderness along 

 the shoulder blade Lameness does not generally de- 

 velop until after the swelling has subsided, and the wasting 

 of the muscles have commenced : this usually takes place in 

 about ten days from the onset. The hollow or sunken 

 space generally extends the full length of the shoulder 

 blade, and may be quite deep; deep enough that the spine 

 of the shoulder blade is prominent. 



TREATMENT: — Remove the cause if possible. Dur- 

 ing the stage of heat and swelling apply hot water fomenta- 

 tions. Alter the swelling has disappeared, apply our 



REMEDY NO. 91 AS DIRECTED. 



