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may result from condition of the blood, from unwhole- 

 some fodder, or work in irritating mud or dust, especially of 

 a limestone character. It has been brought on by using 

 caustic soap on the legs, clipping the heels in wintertime, by 

 debilitating disease, etc. The first step in a cure is to 

 remove the cause, and if there is much local heat, administer 

 a laxative like a pound of Glauber's salts. Highly-fed 

 animals should have their rations reduced, or replaced by bran 

 mashes, flaxseed, fruits, roots, and other non -stimulating food. 

 Bitter tonics are essential also, and may be continued six 

 weeks to two months. If the skin is unbroken, bathe with 

 water, one quart, in which sugar of lead, two drachms, is dis- 

 solved, or annoint with vaseline, one ounce, sugar of lead, 

 one drachm, and carbolic acid, ten drops. To clip the hair 

 from the horse's heels and poultice them with grated carrot, 

 night and morning, is sometimes beneficial. Free exercise 

 is important. Rub the heels dry and apply equal parts of 

 glycerine and compound tincture of aloes. 



The treatment for Wind Galls consists in pressure by 

 means of bandages and by cold lotions. Blistering will 

 remove them. Capped Hocks are reduced in the same 

 manner. 



There is no treatment that will surely avail in the cure of 

 String Halt. 



For Itching Skill, wash the skin thoroughly with carbolic 

 soapsuds, and give the horse a half pound of Glauber's salts 

 daily for a week. Do not feed him any grain but wheat, 

 scalded bran and linseed meal, three quarts of the former 

 and one quart of the latter, for two weeks. There will 

 speedily come a change. Card him daily. Scald his oats 

 and give him salt daily. Feed oats, bran and linseed after 

 the two weeks and scald the whole mess. When horses are 

 covered v/ith bunches or lumps, their blood is out of order. 



