204 DISEASES or THE HORSE. 



(3.) Strongylus. — This variety, and a species of 

 Faliria, are sometimes found in the blood vessels, and are 

 similar in the effects produced in the horse, to those seen 

 in sheep affected with rot. 



Cause. — Feeding on wet and marshy land, and pas- 

 ture having been flooded with water. Who has not heard 

 of the effects produced from this cause, in animals grazed 

 upon the course of the river Nile, in Egypt after each 

 inundation? 



Treatment. — Support the strength by good, generous 

 feeding, and give iron, and gentian, each two to three 

 drachms once a day, and remove the animal to high and 

 dry pasture, 



(4.) ASCARIDES. 



Cause. — A bad habit of body, called cachexia and 

 chlorosis. 



Treatment. — Give iron, gentian, arsenious acid, in the 

 following manner : powdered sulphate of iron, two 

 drachms ; gentian root, two drachms ; arsenic, five grains. 

 Mix, and give in one dose in mixed, cut or soft feed, 

 twice or three times a week. 



Wounds — Are divided into simple, incised, contused, 

 lacerated, punctured and poisoned. Wounds are danger- 

 ous, when entering into cavities, as the chest and belly, 

 and from poisoned wounds, or from the bite of a mad 

 dog. (See Bites.) 



Wounds following by bleeding, will be found treated 

 of under the article bleeding wounds. (Which See.) 



Contused^ lacerated and punctured wounds are gen- 

 erally followed by suppuration, (Which See) which 

 should be encouraged by warm poultices applied to the 

 parts, and open the parts freely, to allow the pus free 



