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to errors in feeding. The lymph channels and nodes are inflariimcd, 

 consequently their working- is more or less hindered. Causes arc 

 over-feeding, lack of exercise, or sudden change to large quaiititiov 

 oi new food, etc. It might be considered a disease in which the 

 lymph has stagnated (stopped moving) in the lymph vessels. 1'hcsc 

 vessels, it will be remembered, act especially as carriers of waste 

 material from various parts, hence this stagnated material acts as a 

 foreign object with the result— inflammation of the organs affected. 

 There is excessive swelling of one or more limbs, usually a hind one, 

 the swelling extending from top to bottom of the limb, which is hot 

 and painful to the touch; the swelling will pith on pressure; run- 

 ning the hand down the inside of the limb the lymph nodes are felt : 

 the temperature is above normal; there is great lameness, rapid 

 breathing, hard full pulse and the lymphatics are seen to be en- 

 larged ; owing to the cause, lack of exercise, it is oftenest seen on 

 Monday morning, hence it has been termed Monday morning fever. 

 Attention to the diet — bran mashes every Saturday night contain- 

 ing a tablespoonful of salt petre — will almost certainly prevent the 

 disease. A horse once attacked is liable to have the trouble recur 

 and as a consequence, there will be a chronic enlargement and thick 

 ening of the limb (elephantiasis). This disease must not be con- 

 founded with ordinary stocking up of the limbs, which is painless, nr 

 with the local form of glanders, termed farcy, a very dangerous dis 

 case, both to man and animal. 



TREATMENT 



The treatment should be directed towards the cause and its 

 effect ; therefore, limit the feed, give a purgative (Bovolax, prefer- 

 ably") to remove the acciunulated waste products, which have, in the 

 form of lymph, escaped more or less into the tissues, and, if left 

 there, may coagulate and thus give the chronic thickening so often 

 a result of this disease. Bathe the limb with warm water, thus re 

 lieving the tension and pain ; hand rub and bandage the limb when 

 the inflammation is subsiding, and if the swelling is slow to depart, 

 you may apply Elk's Absorbing Ointment to the swollen parts once 

 or twice a week. 



HEAVES, nr BROKEN WIND, is a chronic condition in 

 which there is difficulty of breathing (the act of expelling air from 

 the lungs taking longer than the act of breathing in air). It is due 

 originally to mistakes in feeding, and an animal badly affected is 

 rendered almost incapable of work. 



