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seat of the disease, and firing may also be employ- 

 ed with advantage. 



LamperSy or Lampas. 



Idle or ill-worked yonng horses are most liable 

 to lampas. A swelling of the bars of the mouth 

 follows the rising vigor and heat of the animal; they 

 then project below the surface of the teeth, and in- 

 terfere between them while feeding. The pain is 

 necessarily very great on feeding, and the animal 

 ceases to chew of a sudden; it afterwards commen- 

 ces anew, with greater caution; but as the disorder 

 becomes worse, it refuses food entirely, and starva- 

 tion would be the consequence if something did 

 not intervene which is always sure to happen. 



The cure would be effected of itself, if the horse 

 lived in a state of nature, or more probably in that 

 state he never would have contracted the disease. 

 Over-gorging and consequent fulness of habit hav- 

 ing occasioned tlie blood to flow luxuriantly to- 

 wards the region of the head and throat, so that dis- 

 order is thereby produced, the reduction of that full 

 habit follows this compulsory abstemiousness which 

 the afflicted animal practices much against his will, 

 and might teach man himself a monitory lesson he 

 is usually slow in attending to, until too late. Re- 

 ducing the system is the neatest method of remov- 

 ing lampas, and purgatives should be employed; 

 bran mashes, in which an ounce of nitre daily has 

 been introduced, may also be given until the pulse 

 becomes more natural. If the lampas be not less- 

 ened by these means, the projecting part is to be 

 cut with a lancet, but some people commence op- 

 erations with the searing iron, as the readiest way, 

 and give physic afterwards. This application nev- 

 er fails 



