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operation. Cataract or general cloudiness or specking of the lens can be 

 relieved by removal of the lens; but as this leaves imperfect vision, the 

 operation is hardly worth while. 



Where the attacks are periodic with symptoms of inflammation, tearing, 

 and a cloudy or pearly color of the eyes with extreme sensitiveness to 

 light, the disease is moon-blindness; and is incurable after six to eight 

 attacks. General treatment as already given under moon-blindness will 

 lessen the frequency of the attacks, and postpone the bad day of incurable 

 blindness. Follow directions carefully. 



EXOSTOSIS Any bony bunch or outgrowth from the bone should be 

 treated with Conkey's Absorbent, applied as directed for 

 Spavin, Ringbone, Sidebone, Splint, etc. 



FEET Watch the feet all the time; for small causes lead to serious trouble 

 with Contracted feet. Thrush in clefts of the feet, Corns, Quittor, 

 Sandcrack, Canker, Speedycut, Split Hoof, etc. Dressing with Conkey's 

 Hoof Remedy will keep the feet from drying out unduly, as they are liable 

 to do when horses are worked on hard, dry roads or stand on hard floors in 

 stables. Watch the growth of horn, for uneven growth of the hoof brings 

 about a change in balance causing change of action, so that very serious 

 troubles such as splint, spavin, curb, etc., are liable to follow. Many 

 injuries to the foot are preventable, and whether preventable or not, are 

 simplified when given immediate treatment, as in the case of corns, punc- 

 ture, nail wrongly driven in the hoof, etc. Unsanitary conditions under-foot 

 are a prime cause of disease. Clean up regularly and disinfect with 

 Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant, or any reliable disinfectant. Such diseases 

 as Thrush, Canker, etc., are usually the result of neglect of sanitary condi- 

 tion. Keep the filth out of the stall, and see that the floor properly drains. 

 Keep the feet clean, then with a brush apply Conkey's Hoof Remedy regu- 

 larly. Put some on the coronary band as well as on the hoof proper; and 

 if the foot needs a pack stuff with bran and Conkey's Hoof Remedy, which 

 makes the best possible hoof packing. Or, you can use Nox-i-cide with 

 bran, which also makes an antiseptic dressing. 



FEVER Where the temperature rises above normal, as the result of 

 some exposure, or some fault of digestion or derangement of 

 bowels or bladder, so that the system poisons are absorbed instead of passing 

 from the body, the best treatment is rest, careful diet, and for medicine, 

 Conkey's Distemper and Fever Remedy in doses as directed. Keep the 

 animal in a comfortable stall, if possible a box stall, with the temperature 

 as near 60 or 65 degrees Fahrenheit as possible free from draughts but 

 with plenty of fresh air for breathing. He will not have much appetite, 

 but make the ration as attractive as possible, giving such food as grass, bran 

 mash, carrots, etc. Give the horse plenty of fresh pure water of an agree- 

 able temperature. Conkey's Stock Tonic in the feed will increase appetite 

 and also tone up the body functions. 



FISTULA A fistula is a swelling containing tube-like channels through 

 which the pus or matter discharges. Usually they are located 

 on the neck and withers. Fistula of the foot is called Quittor, which see. 

 Fistula is generally due to a bruise or other injury of the withers from a 

 blow, pressure of the harness or catching the neck on a beam, bruising the 

 ligaments and sometimes the bony structure, as at the withers. The promi- 

 nence of the withers makes them liable to accident of this sort. There is 

 inflammation of the bursae or lubricating sacs, as in Bursitis. A painful, soft 

 swelling develops on one or both sides of the withers, filled with blood- 



