OS DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



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has become detached. If this occur in the bones of the 

 leg, of course the horse had better be shot. Where 

 small pieces of bone become loose, it is usually in some 

 of the flat bones, as of the shoulder blade and the lower 

 jaw bone from kicks from other horses. 



Fractures of the teeth take place often, and where 

 they are very loose in the head, they had better be taken 

 out altogether, and rasp the sharp points of the broken 

 ones with a file or rasp, to prevent cutting the mouth 

 when the horse is chewing. 



Gangrene. — This is a name applied to, or is synony- 

 mous with mortification or death of a part characterized 

 by a livid or black color. Gangrene is attended or is 

 ushered in by a sudden giving way of pain, which has 

 after been mistaken for recovery. When gangrene of 

 an outward or external part takes place, a change in the 

 condition of the parts assumes a difi*erent aspect, the 

 swelling subside, and touching the parts a crackling 

 sound is produced, owing to the evolution of gas in the 

 parts. 



Gastritis Mucosa. — This is a new name to many 

 persons, even well informed in diseases of horses, not- 

 withstanding it is a very common one in the spring of the 

 year, assuming always an epizootic form, and is closely 

 allied to the epizootic catarrh, sometimes called typhoid 

 influenza, (See Influenza.) The chief difi'erence in the 

 symptoms between the two diseases, being the absence of 

 a cough, which is always observed in influenza. The 

 one disease attacking the lining membrane of the wind- 

 pipe, and in gastritis mucous, the mucous membrane of 

 the stomach and bowels, or in other wor^s, the digestive 

 organs, more than the respiratory. Gastritis Mucosa is 



