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it exists only in the imagination of the attendant. 

 The popular remedy some years ago was to cauterize 

 the part with a hot iron, and I have no hesitation 

 in saying that any one doing this should be indicted 

 for cruelty to animals. Lately, the popular treat- 

 ment has been more merciful in liaving the part 

 scarified with a lancet, but even this is useless. 

 Where lampas does exist, there is more or less 

 enlargement and swelling of the membrane of the 

 entire alimentary canal, but the "barbs" of the 

 mouth being the only part visible, it is popularly 

 supposed to be a local affection. Under these con- 

 ditions, it will be readily understood how utterly 

 useless lancing or scarifying one small part of the 

 affected canal will be. A small dose of aperient 

 medicine, or even putting the horse on a laxative 

 diet of bran mash for a few days, will do all that is 

 required, without having recourse to heroic measures. 



Nose-bags {tohra), 

 Nose-bags are sadly neglected by ''syces/' and 

 unless looked after by the owner, they never 

 dream of cleaning them, so that, particularly with 

 leather ones, they get into a very filthy condition, 

 and frequently horses refuse to eat out of such 

 dirty things. Both mangers and nose-bags should 



