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The food must then be improved, the stable manage- 

 ment amended, and the work diminished. After this 

 has been done, or at the same time, the building 

 must be surveyed. The drains must be cleared, and 

 the ventilation must be especially considered. The 

 harness, &c, must be well washed and thoroughly 

 cleansed with the chloride of zinc lotion — one drachm 

 to the quart. With regard to the stables, the whole 

 of the interior should be first scraped and then satu- 

 rated with water. After that every crevice should be 

 stopped, and the place should be subjected to the 

 action of chlorine gas. The easiest means of doing 

 this is to place a saucer over a lamp. The saucer 

 should contain sulphuric acid and common salt. The 

 lamp being lighted and the saucer properly supported, 

 the light ought to be placed beneath it, when chlorine 

 will be given off in abundance. The fumigation 

 ought to be thrice repeated on different days, and 

 after that the pest will, supposing every thing to have 

 been well done, be entirely destroyed. 



CHAPTER XL 



INFLAMMATION AND ULCERATION OF THE SUPER- 

 FICIAL ABSORBENTS — FARCY. 



In the Cattle Doctor the absorbents were described as 

 vessels which are distributed to every surface and 

 every part of the body : they are carrying away the 

 worn-out portions of the frame, or the fluids that fill 



