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Remove a mad horse, as soon as observed, from any 

 thing of value, that can be broken or hurt, or remove the 

 things, or other horses, from the mad one, before it is too 

 late. 



Staked- — An accident to some portion of the body, 

 but most frequently to the belly, by horses leaping fences, 

 or it may be by the horn of an ox, cow, or bull. 



Treatment. — If the injury be on the belly, and the 

 wound deep, and have entered the belly, ascertain, with 

 the finger, whether any portion of the bowels are injured, 

 or if any portion of the bowels has escaped through the 

 opening; and if so, and part of them be torn, sew with 

 small, fine cat-gut, (which is used by fishers with the rod, 

 and with artificial flies,) and pass the bowel or intestine 

 into its proper place, and close the wound in the same 

 way as is recommended for rupture of the belly, (which 

 see.) If the skin is only wounded, treat it as for simple 

 sore. If the wound is in a fleshy part, and the skin 

 peeled or torn from the flesh, it had better be clipped ofi", 

 as it will not unite again, but shrink and dry up ; hence, 

 it is not advisable to let it hang, nor attempt to sew it. 

 Trim ofi" the fragments of loose skin, and treat the wound 

 with a weak solution of blue stone, chloride, or sulphate 

 of zinc. (See Medicines and Prescriptions, and Bleeding 

 Wounds.) 



Stings from Bees, Hornets, etc — Not unfrequently 



we hear of horses losing: their lives from irritation and 

 fever, set up from the efi'ects^of stings from those insects. 

 Treatment. — Take acetic acid No. 8, four ounces, 

 powdered camphor, one ounce; mix, and dissolve, then 

 rub a portion of this mixture into the parts most afl'ected. 

 The poison, swelling, irritation, etc., will be at once ar- 

 rested. In an hour afterwards, anoint the parts with 



