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extract and arnica diluted with forty parts of water. When 

 sloLighings do occur, as they do frequently, especially about 

 the limbs, tepid water dressings, mild astringent applications, 

 and good food afford the best hopes of cure. 



When the lips are so tumefied as to interfere with eating, 

 they must be diligently fomented and scarified, for all treat- 

 ment will be useless if the creature cannot eat. 



The swellings about the sheath and limbs, as well as the 

 head, must be scarified. If suffocation ensues, perform 

 tracheotomy. 



GLANDERS. 



Cause. — This is the most loathsome and malignant 

 disease to which the horse is subject. It seems to exist as 

 one of the chief scourges of the equine race, and at the same 

 . time a severe penalty on man for long continued neglect 

 and ill-treatment of this animal. This is a fearful complaint 

 when communicated to any of the human species, and is 

 then known by the name of equinia. Like purpura, this 

 disorder seldom, if ever, arises as a primary and independ- 

 ent disease ; it is generally the sequel or termination of 

 several diseases, some of which may not have shown very 

 marked symptoms at the time of their invasion, except 

 general debility. 



There are two forms of glanders, the acute and chronic. 

 The latter is more to be dreaded than the former ; it may 

 exist for some months, or even a year or two, spreading the 

 contagion amongst other horses, without any decision by 

 the owners of the nature of the disorder or where it may 

 end. The acute form runs its course very rapidly; the 

 symptoms in this case are very well marked, and by proper 

 precautions the danger of the propagation of the disease 

 might possibly be stopped in time to prevent further mis- 

 chief. The causes which produce glanders are pretty nu- 

 merous, but it maybe stated in general terms " that they 

 include everything that impairs the integrity of the blood, 

 such as bad feeding, over-work, close, foul, damp, or over- 



