196 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



spots are seen looking through the white covering. 

 These are granulations, and are possibly at this time un- 

 healthy ones. 



Cause, — A bad habit of the body and blood, poor 

 feeding, and debility. 



Treatment — Apply powdered blue stone to the ulcer, 

 to eat off the unhealthy surface. Then apply a poultice 

 for the night, made of any soft moist, material, say boiled 

 turnips, carrots, or bran and flaxseed meal, made with a 

 little warm water. The face of the poultice to be co- 

 vered with powdered charcoal or brewer's yeast. Con- 

 tinue the treatment with an occasional poultice, and the 

 solution of blue stone. (See Healthy Ulcers.) 



Feed the horse well, and give half-ounce doses of the 

 sulphite of soda once a day, to purify and enrich the 

 blood. 



(3.) Irritable Ulcer. — Example — sores on the past- 

 ern joint irritated by the flies, heat and sweat of summer. 



Symptoms. — Cannot be touched without they bleed; 

 angry-looking, and very sore; highly inflamed, and ex- 

 tremely vascular. 



Treatment. — Difficult to cure during warm weather, 

 but easily so in moderate weather, and with no flies. 



Dress the sore with oil of olives, one ounce; creasote, 

 half an ounce; oil of turpentine, half an ounce; mix, 

 and apply to the sore with a piece of soft cloth, once a 

 day. Do not let any of the mixture run down on the 

 hair, which will, if so treated, fall off. - 



Urinary Calculi. — (See Stone in the Bladder.) 



Urine Bloody. — (See Hsematuria.) 



