Til E IB, PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT. \J 



Lotion for Strain of Back Sinews —Take of sal ammoniac, §oz. ; strong 

 acetic acid, 3oz. ; methylated spirits of wine, 2oz. ; and water to make up a 

 wine bottle. 



The lotions must be applied by means of a bandage, which should be 

 kept constantly wetted, this should be continued for several weeks, when 

 the horse should be either fired or blistered, and allowed a considerable 

 period of rest. Complete recovery from severe cases is not to be looked 

 for, and, although the horse will recover sufficiently to be very useful, he 

 should be afterwards kept to light and rather slow work, for if pressed or 

 put to hard work lameness is very likely to recur. 



It may be found useful in beginning the treatment to give the horse a 

 dose of physic, and if the case has been neglected and the animal is 

 feverish, he will also require some fever medicine; but this may be avoided 

 by care and attention, particularly to his diet, which should, during 

 treatment, consist of clover or cut grass, if obtainable, or roots, such 

 as carrots or steamed potatoes with steamed corn, and the return to 

 usual feed should be gradual, as inflammatory and feverish symptoms dis- 

 appear. 



Barbs and Pap3.-The horse is furnished with a number of glands 

 for the secretion of saliva, and these open and discharge the fluid by small 

 protuberances underneath the tongue. The submaxillary glands open on 

 each side of the bridle of the tongue, presenting a teat-like appearance, 

 and in cases of cold, inflammation, &c, these swell and become tender, 

 causing some*" difficulty in mastication ; and in this swollen and inflamed 

 state they form what are known as barbs or paps in the mouth. Old 

 farriers recommend their excision, and the practice still prevails among the 

 ignorant ; and the immediate result of this cruel and stupid practice is 

 that reduction of the local inflammation is produced by the bleeding, but 

 the wound made is difficult to; heal, the discharge of saliva helps to spread 

 the sore, or the orifice of the duct gets closed, and the fluid it contains, 

 finding no outlet, accumulates until it bursts, and a deep-seated ulcerous 

 sore is formed beneath the tongue, which may puzzle the most skilful 

 practitioner to cure. When we consider that these glands discharge 

 into the mouth an amount of saliva absolutely necessary for the proper 

 mastication of the food, the parotid alone discharging, on the authority 

 of Touatt, a pint and a half an hour during mastication, the folly of tam- 

 pering with them becomes apparent. The treatment really required i3 

 to remove the cause by giving a dose of physic and a few doses of cooling 

 medicine, and at the same time to keep the animal on soft and easily mas- 

 ticated food ; Walsh recommends in obstinate cases, that they be touched 

 every second day with caustic, just at the opening of the duct. Similar 

 enlargements of the opening of the sublingual glands, are known a3 gigs, 

 bladders, and flaps. 



Belly Ache.— See Colic. 



Bladder, Inflammation of.— This is not of very frequent occurrence 

 in the horse, and is probably often caused by the giving of cantharides as a 



