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bloody. The horse seldom lies down and almost refuses to move about, 

 and crouches beneath pressure made over the kidneys, as show^n in the en- 

 graving. This disease is sometimes confounded with colic, which see. 



Treatment. — Do not give any diuretics, as they will do more harm than 

 good. Use hot fomentations over the kidneys, and change the cloths often. 

 In the first stage give twenty to forty-five grains of powdered opium, and 

 fifteen grains of calomel, sprinkled on the tongue, and repeat every hour or 

 two, for a few times, or while the acute stage continues. No food will be 

 necessary during the acute stage of the disease, but it would be well to set 

 before the horse a pailful of good linseed tea and allow him to drink all he 

 will. If the pulse is quick and hard, as is usually the case, give twenty 

 drops of tincture of aconite root, either between doses of opium and calomel 

 or after it has been given, and repeat until the pulse becomes slower and 

 softer. Give the horse a month's rest, and use carefully for some time. 



LAMENESS. — It occurs as a siymptom in spavin, ring-bone, bruises, 

 sprains, fractures, and many wounds and injuries, which we treat of in 

 their proper places. We do not know of any remedy which equals Kendall's 

 Spavin Cure, for lameness of every kind, and it is equally good for lame- 

 ness on man. 



LAMPERS, (written also, Lampass). — A swelling of some of the lower 

 bars of a horse's mouth ; so named because formerly removed by burning 

 with a lamp or hot iron". 



Treatment. — Pinch or cut the bars until they bleed, and then rub in a 

 little table salt, which is much better than burning the mouth with a red- 

 hot iron, 



LUNGS, DISEASES OF.— The lungs are subject to many diseases. 



Pneumonia. — (Lung Fever). In this disease the substance of the lungs is 

 inflamed, instead of the air passages, as in bronchitis. 



Symptoms. — The horse will often- 

 times have a discharge from the nos- 

 trils, following a sudden exposure to 

 cold, after being kept in a icarm 

 stable, and then the disease is ushered 

 in by a chill, followed by fever, 

 which is increased for a short time; 

 cold legs and ears ; c^uick and wiry 

 pulse; quick and difficult breathing; 

 pain in the chest, which is aggravated 

 by coughing; and a quivering of the commencement op mFLAM^iATiON 

 muscles of the side and breast, op the lungs. 



The horse will not eat, and continually stands with his head down and 

 ears lopped, and will not lie down nor move about; the nostrils are expanded. 



