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place by putting two or three stitches across it, then treat it as a 

 common cut by bathing two or three times a day, and after bath- 

 ing, each time apply the white lotion, and the hole will soon heal 

 up. During the time the tube is in the throat it is best to take it 

 out and clean it once a day. 



BASTARD STRANGLES. 



This generally follows simple strangles or distemper. 



Causes. — Is from the matter in the abscess or lump being 

 absorbed into the system and poisoning the blood. 



Symptoms. — Abscesses of the same nature as the one which 

 forms in the throat from distemper are liable to form and break 

 out in any part of the body, sometimes around the shoulder, flank, 

 neck or hips, but the rest of the general symptoms are the same 

 as in simple strangles. These abscesses will keep forming until the 

 poison is out of the blood. 



Treatment. — The treatment is the same as in a simple casj of 



strangles. Give the same medicine, bathe, poultice and rub thfc 



abscesses with white liniment and try and bring them to a head 



so that thev will break themselves, or lance them to get the 



poison out of the blood, for thiii is the only way to get rid of the 



disease. The danger in this disease is that the abscesses may form 



mside on the lungs or bowels and cause the animal's death. We 



have known of some cases where the animal would break out 



forty or fifty times, depending upon the amount of poison in the 



blood. 



PINK EYE (EPIZOOTIC CELLULITIS). 



The disease aflfects the cellular tissue under the skin, and like 

 the other fevers of the horse, runs a course which takes from six 

 to nine days, and, as a general thing, if treated properly, runs its 

 course favorably. 



Causes. — This disease is due to germs in the air, and when 

 once it starts it spreads all over the country from one horse 

 to another. There was a great outbreak of this disease between 

 1875 and 1880, which spread all over the country. 



S^/mptoms. — The animal becomes dull and feverish, and his 

 eyes are red and swollen, and afterwards turns to a pinkish color, 

 from which the disease receives its name — pink eye. The animal 

 does not eat well; his temperature runs from a 103 to 105 degrees; 

 his mouth is hot and dry, and he falls off greatly in condition ; his 

 manure is hard and dry; there is a discharge from the eyes and b 



