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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



caustic salts, use white of egg, or tea of slippery elm bark. If there i« 

 inflammation with costiveness, open the bowels with injections of warnx 

 water, or soapsuds, and wash the mouth frequently with vinegar and 

 honey. If this do not effect a cure wash the mouth with alum water. 

 If there are ulcers touch them with a feather wet with the following : 



No. 101. 



10 Grains lunar caustic, 

 1 Ounce distilled water. 



If there are tumors with pus, lance them. If there is sloughing wash 

 with the following : 



No. 102. 



1 Drachm solution of permanganate of potassa, 

 1 Pint rainwater. 



Give plenty of cool water, so the animal may take it at will, and feed 

 with soft or boiled food, and if there is much swelling, keep the head 

 tied up. 



vn. Inflammation of the Stomach. 



Causes. — This disease is not common in horses, and occurs rarely from 

 eating vegetable poisons, and more generally from poisoning by arsenic 

 given in the food by ignorant stable-men, to make the horse carry a 

 shining coat and foam at the bit. It is also produced by the licking of 

 external corrosive applications, thus producing acute gastritis. 



HORSK SUFFERING PKOM ACUTE QA8TBITI6. 



The symptoms are various in unison with the causes producing them. 

 These are, refusing food, extreme thirst, redness of the nasal and con. 

 junctival membranes, discharge of ropy saliva, frequent eructations with 

 fetid smell, colic, rolling on the ground, paAving, striking at the abdomen, 

 etc. } tuck©d up flanks, heaving, panting, small, quick pulse, violp it 



