I'ARrrniKXT lamlxitis. firs 



The inflamed feet should he treated with the greatest care, and for 

 subduing' the inflainination nothing' can equal cold applications — either 

 cold water, cold poultices, or even ice. Continuous irri'^ation is to be 

 preferred, the water being applied by means of india-rubber tubing, 

 wliich carries the fluid direct from the water-tap to the foot. The latter 

 is thickly covered with pieces of thick flannel or tow, so as to diffuse 

 the water around it. The shoes should be previously removed, and the 

 wall of the hoof lowered, so as to allow the sole and frog to sustain as 

 much of the weight as possible. It is a good plan to litter the animal 

 on saw-dust or peat-moss. 



Warm applications should never, on any account, be employed for 

 the feet. 



When suppuration is apprehended or has set in, or even when the 

 eftusion or exudation is serious, an outlet may be made between the 

 sole and the wall, towards the toe of the hoof, for the escape of the 

 fluid. Astringent and antiseptic lotions or foot-baths may be useful. 

 .\t the commencement of the disease, and sometimes at a later period, 

 when it threatens to become chronic, stimulating applications — even 

 blisters — may be applied with advantage to the limbs above the 

 fetlocks. 



The diet should be light, and limited to mashes, grass, a small quantity 

 of good hay, and nitrated water or gruel as drink. The body should be 

 comfortably, if not warmly, clothed, and friction to the skin is often 

 beneficial. 



The Foal should be allowed to remain with the Mare, as its frequent 

 sucking is likely to hasten the return of the milk, which is, as has been 

 already remarked, a most favourable sign. 



If constipation is present, laxatives should be administered, and 

 emollient enemas are then, as well as at other times, most useful. 



CH.VPTER TX 

 Mammitis or Mastitis. 



In treating of pregnancy, allusion was made to the function of the 

 mamma>, and it was pointed out that this function — except in rare 

 cases, when it may be independent of pregnancy or the parturient 

 period, and even manifest itself in the male sex — is, in manunals, peculiar 

 to the period of parturition and rearing of the young. Some time before 

 the progeny is born, the mamma; begin to enlarge ; they become 

 pendulous and their density increases, while they are more vascular; if 

 not marked bv dark pigment, their colour is observed to have changed, 

 and the teats are considerably developed. So that at parturition the 

 glands have attained dimensions and ofTer appearances very dift'erent to 

 those exhibited a short time previously; while the fluid— the milk — 

 provided by Nature for the sustenance of the young creature after birth, 

 is secreted in more or less considerable quantity — generally in propor- 

 tion to the development of the mamma\ 



With the exception of some species — such as the Cow and Goat, 

 sometimes the Ewe and Ass (and also the Mare among the Khirgiz), in 

 which the secretion is maintained artificially for some time beyond its 

 natural duration, and, with the former animal especially, almost per- 

 manentlv — the function is essentiallv intermittent : being most active 



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