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is a deposite of hard bony matter in one of the pasterns, 

 between the fetlock and the foot; but if the pastern be 

 long, it is generally near the foot. A ringbone is diffi- 

 cult to cure ; and the only successful treatment is by ac- 

 tive blistering in its first stages, or by making a few holes 

 just through the skin, and rubbing well with some pene- 

 trating mild oil, followed by blistering. As a last resort, 

 apply the cautery. 



GLANDERS. 



This is one of the few disorder-, to which the horse is 

 subject that, unless taken in its first stages, baffles the 

 skill of the most celebrated doctors. People often mis- 

 take other disorders for the glanders. The disease is 

 sometimes communicated by contagion, sometimes it is 

 the result of hereditary transmission, and frequently pro- 

 duced by great fatigue and exhaustion. 



Symptoms. — The matter discharged from the nostrils 

 of a glandered horse, is either whitish, yellow, greenish, 

 or tinged with blood. When the disease has been of 

 lonof standino:, and the bones are affected, the matter be- 

 comes black, and is very off'ensive. The glanders are 

 always attended with a swelling of the kernels or glands 

 under the jaws ; but in every other respect the horse is 

 healthy and sound, till the disorder has continued a long 

 time. If the glands under the jaw do not continue to 

 swell, and the disorder be recently contracted, a cure 

 can be often effected by applying the following : 1 oz. of 

 rochealum, 1 oz. white vitriol; powder them well, put 

 them in a pint of warm vinegar, and syringe about an 

 ounce up his nostrils every day. 



HEAVES, OR BROKEN V^IND. 



The heaves may usually be' avoided, but after this dis- 

 ease is once seated it can not be cured. All that can be 

 done, therefore, is to give rules for prevention, and sorhe 

 remedies that will afford relief when it is seated, and 

 render the horse capable of performing tolerable good 

 service, notwithstanding his misfiutune. The first symp- 

 tom of a broken wind is a dry cough, with an increased 

 appetite, and a disposition to drink large quantities of 

 water. Sometimes the disorder is induced by a sudden 



