108 DISEASES OP THE HORSE. 



Treatment. — Tonics to improve the general health, and 

 medicines to draw off the water by the kidneys and bow- 

 els. An operation is recommended by which the fluids 

 are drawn from the side by means of a trochar. (See 

 Dropsy.) 



Hydrocele. — A collection of fluid in the scrotum of 

 stallions. 



Treatment. — Paint the scrotum with the tincture of 

 benzoin or iodine. If these remedies are not successful 

 in causing absorption of the water, the skin of the scro- 

 tum will have to be opened to let out the fluid. 



Hydronemia. — A name used when speaking of the 

 blood, when it contains too much water — water in the 

 blood. (Sec Dropsy.) 



Hydrophobia, — This disease, happily, is rare in a 

 practice of thirteen years, and doing much in the treat- 

 ment of diseases of horses, and being well acquainted 

 with the practice of other persons, I can only record 

 three cases, and one of these was a mule. This disease 

 is sometimes called water dread and canine rabies from 

 the fact that it is only generated in the dog and feline 

 species of animals. 



Cause in Horses. — Bites of the mad dog, and some- 

 times the bite from the common cat is capable of pro- 

 ducing the disease. 



Symptoms. — In those cases that came under my no- 

 tice, the symptoms were anything but like each other. 

 In one animal, the propensity to bite at objects was more 

 severe, and in another, the horse would walk and look 

 about him, utter a peculiar sound, and lie down and get 

 hold of the heels, and part of the arm of the fore leg 

 with his teeth till he had them bleeding, get up again, and 



