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the following powder every night in feed for twelve 

 nights: — Powdered sulphate of iron, three drachms; 

 powdered gentian root, four drachms. Mix. If the 

 animal is fat and yet hide bound, substitute the follow- 

 ing, instead of that above recommended:— Take sulphu- 

 ret of antimony, three drachms; sulphur in flour, three 

 drachms; sulphite of soda, half an ounce. Mix, and 

 give in one dose, and give one dose every night for two 

 weeks. If in the winter, put on an extra blanket. If 

 in summer, give cut grass to eat. 



Hip joint Disease.— Happily, this is a very rare 

 disease in horses, and does not make its appearance so 

 soon as in man, and is always the result of accident or 

 injury, and is a joint affection, not of the muscles, be- 

 cause the mass of muscles are so very great over the 

 hip, that it is not an easy matter to sprain them. I 

 speak of this here, because among horsemen it is a great 

 bug-bear, and often occurring in their ideas : whereas, in 

 ninety-nine cases out of a hundred of their so-called hip 

 and ivhirl hone disease, the lameness will be found in the 

 hock joint. Why do they jump at the conclusion that 

 the lameness is in the hip? Because in every movement 

 of the hock joint, the vibration or hitch is more distinctly 

 seen by the altered action of the muscles of the hip, as 

 when the hock joint moves but partially, and not com- 

 pletely, it is not so readily seen at the hock, but at the 

 hip. Hence, this is but the old adage, cause and effect, 

 but in this case the horseman has them reversed. (See 

 Spavin.) 



A%mp^ow2s.-— Lowness or falling in of the hip ; a pecu- 

 liar manner of moving not indicating inability as is seen 

 in fracture of the pelvis bone, but of great pain and diffi- 



