54 HORSES. 



SITFASTS. 



Cause. — Pressure long continued or momentarily severe. 

 The injury is of such a nature that repair is impossible (See 

 Treads, page 58). A portion of skin, and possibly some 

 deeper structure, is killed and has to be separated from the 

 living substance. 



Treatment.— Readers with medical knowledge will be the 

 first to understand how the use of Elliman's will facilitate the 

 separation of the sitfast. To excite activity in the immediate 

 neighbourhood is to help nature to detach the dead portion. 



As the edges curl up, a little Elliman's may be painted 

 under them with a fine brush. When the sitfast comes away 

 the rest may be left to nature. 



FISTULOUS WITHERS, 



Instead of a gall, an abscess or a sitfast forms as the result 

 of saddle pressure, and the damage is sometimes deep seated. 

 The fibrous tissues beneath the skin or upon the backbone are 

 so injured that a fistula is established, in which case a veterinary 

 surgeon should be em^ployed. By early use of Elliman's many 

 a fistulous wound is prevented, and the importance of attention 

 to saddle galls cannot be too much insisted on. 



RHEUMATISM, 



The causes of rheumatism in horses are thought to be the 

 same as in man. That damp and ill-drained stables cause 

 rheumatism is easily enough proved by the statistics of the great 

 omnibus and other studs, whose horses suffer from the disease 

 in some situations and not in others, although they have the 

 same rations and similar work. 



Symptoms. — Cramp and lameness are the two prominent 

 ones, but the distinguishing feature is the suddenness of the 



