WORMS — DISEASES OF THE BLADDER. 181 



is a flow of saliva from the mouth and a semi -purulent 

 discharge from the nose. The jaws, throat and glands ol 

 the neck should be poulticed with steaming mashes, the 

 skin stimulated bj means of a liquid blister, and the head 

 steamed, in order to promote suppuration. As soon as 

 fluctuation can be perceived, the swelling should be lanced, 

 ind a rowel introduced, to keep the abscess open and the 

 discharge flowing for a few days. The animal should have 

 walking exercise, and be treated with green food, until the 

 symptoms abate, when he will require liberal and generous 

 food to recruit his strength. 



Worms are sometimes troublesome to a horse, but in a 

 far less degree than is generally supposed. Botts have 

 long since, been proved to be perfectly harmless while 

 they are within the stomach, — all the stories of their eating 

 through its coats being pure mytlis^ although they are very 

 often troublesome after they have passed out of the oesoph- 

 agus and rectum and begin to adhere to the orifice of 

 the anus. Common purgatives will often bring away vast 

 numbers of the long, white worm, teres lumhricus, which 

 occasionally, when existing in great numbers, consume 

 too large a proportion of the animal's food, and produce a 

 tight skin, a tucked-up belly, and a rough coat. Calomel 

 should never be given, as it too frequently is, for the re- 

 moval of these worms, which will readily yield to balls of 

 two drachms of tartar emetic, one scruple of ginger, with 

 molasses and linseed oil quantum suff., given alternate 

 mornings half an hour before feeding time. The smaller 

 worm, ascaris, which often causes serious irritation about 

 the fundament, is best removed by injecting a quart ol 

 linseed oil, or an ounce of aloes dissolved in warm water, 

 which is a most effectual remedy. 



Diseases of the Bladder are many, serious, and often 

 mistreated They require, however, so much skill and bo 



