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INFLAMMATION OF STOMACH. 



Symptoms. — The leg apjDears shorter, and, when the horse is standing, i& 

 placed slightly under the body and not doubled up, or standing upon the 

 toe, as is seen in diseases of hock-joint. In nearly all cases of so-called hip 

 and whirl-bone disease, the true seat of disease will be found to be in the 

 hock-joint. (See Spavin.) 



In hip- joint lameness there is a dragging or swaying motion of the limb 

 outward. An extra degree of heat will be found over this joint. 



Treatment. — Give the horse absolute rest for a few weeks, and begin, 

 when first allowed to rest, to apply cold water cloths over the hip- joint, 

 which continue one or two days or more, until the heat and tenderness have 

 been removed. 



Then apply Kendall's Spavin Cure two or three times a day for two or 

 three weeks, or longer if necessary, and allow a week's rest after stopping 

 its use. 



INFLAMMATION OF STOMACH is caused generally by some poison 

 given to improve the coat of the animal. Some persons are in a habit of 

 giving powders composed of poisonous drugs to improve the general appear- 

 ance of the horse, and which, if given in proper quantities and sufficiently 

 diluted, so as not to come in contact with the coating of the stomach while 

 in its full strength, might perhaps do good in many cases, but when given by 

 an ignorant person, it is sometimes given not only full strength, but in large 

 doses, on the principle that, if a little will do good, a larger amount will do 



Symptoms. — The horse is frantic on account of the excessive pain, but 

 the symptoms are not decided in all cases. 



The following symptoms occur, but not all in each case ; nor do they 

 occur simultaneously : Great thirst; 

 loathing of food ; redness of the mem- 

 branes ; frequent eructations which 

 smell bad; discharge of thick saliva; 

 rolling, pawing, colic; striking at 

 the belly ; panting ; tucked-up flanks ; 

 quick and small pulse; passing 

 mucus in large quantities; straining; 

 looking at the abdomen; loss of 

 strength ; convulsions ; madness, and 

 death. 



Treatment. — Give at once 2 ozs. 

 tincture of opium, \\ ozs. sulphuric 

 ether, and 2 ozs. magnesia, in one 

 quart of cold gruel or milk, and re- 

 peat if necessary. 



SUFFElilNG FROM ACl^TE INFLAMMA- 

 TION OF THE STOMACH. 



