146 ARTISTIC HORSE-SHOEING. 



Cure — In the first stages bleed and physic, then tal^e of 

 gentian 2 oz., g-ing-er 3 oz., mal^e a stiff paste and divide 

 into twelve parts, add to each separately 10 grains of arse- 

 nic, make into pills, give one morning and evening, until it 

 makes his mouth sore, then wash the sores clean, and apply 

 the blue ointment to them. If not better in three weeks 

 bleed and repeat the pills. Apply the different liniments to 

 the legs if they swell. Be careful not to get the matter on 

 a wound, for it tvill kill you ! 



Water Farcy. 



This is a swelling along under the chest and forward to 

 the breast. Bleed and rowel in the breast and all along 

 the swelling, six inches apart ; appl}^ the general liniment 

 to the swelling, move the rowels every day, let them stay 

 in until the swelling goes down. Give soft food, mashes, 

 with the cleansing powders in it. This is dropsy, and there 

 are many causes for it. 



Diabetes. 



Too free discharge of urine, or cannot hold his water. 



Cure— Give i oz. tincture of cantharides every ten or 

 twelve days, and if not entirely well repeat it, and bleed 1 

 gallon from the .neck; feed clean food. The cause is rotten 

 or must}^ grain, or too free use of turpentine. Keep him 

 open Avith mashes and green food. 



Contraction of the Tendons in Neck. 

 S^^mptoms — Often the head is drawn to one side ; again, 

 the horse cannot get his head to the ground. Cause of this 

 \s spraining the horse, and rheumatism contracts. 



