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If in two days the condition is not improved, that is, if fever and sore- 

 ness seem to be increasing, the sole of the foot should be thinned and an 

 opening made to let out any pus, then dress with Pain Lotion and replace 

 the bandage or poultice. After the inflammation is all out, say in ten days 

 or two weeks, apply Conkey's Absorbent to the pastern. This will stimu- 

 late activity and prevent the wasting away of the soft structures, and thus 

 avoid danger of contraction of the feet, as in Chronic Founder. Also use 

 Conkey's Hoof Remedy regularly to keep the hoof in healthy condition and 

 prevent the unsightly deformities so often exhibited as the after results 

 of Founder. 



GALLS Saddle and Collar Galls are most common, but galls may come 

 wherever there is chafing from dirty or badly fitting harness. 

 Sometimes defective conformation causes them, and this requires that the 

 saddle or collar be altered to fit the animal for which it is wanted. Some- 

 times this means only a little change in the padding; but even if necessary 

 to re-make the saddle or collar this should be carefully attended to in order 

 to insure the full usefulness of the animal. After the sore, chafed spot is 

 once formed it is easily liable to infection, so that dirty, neglected harness 

 often leads to serious trouble. Trouble usually starts with a puffy swelling; 

 then the hair comes out, finally there is an open sore. 



Treatment is very simple. Conkey's Healing Powder sprinkled on the surface 

 twice a day will speedily cure even a bad case, for it works 

 rapidly. If the sore has been neglected a long time or other treatment 

 has failed to heal it, so that it has worked deeper, it should first be dressed 

 with Conkey's Pain Lotion, which will keep the tissues soft, while healing. 

 Results are not so quick as with the Healing Powder, but in the case of a 

 deep sore it is of course not safe to heal too quickly from the outside, 

 but to give the inner affected tissue plenty of time to heal from the bottom 

 up before closing the surface. 



Prevention consists in fitting the collar or saddle to the horse that wears 

 it, dusting the skin with Conkey's Healing Powder wherever 

 there is liability of chafing, cleaning all dirt from collars, etc., and wiping 

 with a damp cloth and a few drops of Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and Disin- 

 fectant, which will keep the harness soft and free from the hard dirt ridges, 

 so apt to cause chafing and pretty sure to be the source of germ infection. 



GLANDERS These incurable diseases are invariably due to contagion 

 AND FARCY from other affected animals, and are in fact so highly infec- 

 tious that it is not lawful to treat any animal suffering with 

 Glanders or Farcy, the law requiring that the horse be destroyed as soon 

 as proof of the disease is established by re-action to the test with mallein. 

 The general symptoms are hard swelling of the glands under the jaw, 

 which appear to be fixed to the side of the jaw. There is no discharge from 

 the swelling but there is a discharge from the nostril, (usually the left 

 nostril) the result of an ulcerous condition of the lining membrane of the 

 nasal passage. This discharge should not be confused with that in simple 

 catarrh, strangles, or influenza, these latter being more constant. The 

 discharge has no odor, is glutinous, and in acute stages is straw color. When 

 pustular eruptions appear on the skin the disease is called Farcy. In acute 

 stages of Farcy the glands of the leg ulcerate, and the limb suddenly swells 

 up to enormous proportions. Glanders and Farcy are really the same dis- 

 ease, Glanders affecting especially the membrane of the nose and air- 

 passages of the horse, while in Farcy the nodules (Farcy Buds) are on 

 the surface. 



