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CHAPTER XX. 



Mud fever. — Cold and cough. — Treatment. — Strangles. — Treat- 

 ment. — Glanders and farcy. — Eoaring and broken wind.— 

 Eoaring and whistling. — New cure for roaring. — Broken 

 wind. — Treatment. — Wind-sucking and crib-biting. — 

 Weaving. — String-halt. — Worms. — Bots. — Muzzles. — 

 Tearing clothing. — Kicking in stable. — Capped hock.— 

 Capped elbow. — Cracked heels. — Windgalls. — Spavin.- — 

 Thoroughpin. — Curb. — Eing-bone. — Side-bones. — Splint. 

 — ' Periosteotomy.' — Speedy-cut. — Navicular disease. — 

 Sore backs and galls. — Sitfast. — Lampas.- — Toothache. — 

 ' High-blowing.' — Eingworm. — Preparation for physic. — 

 How to give a ball. — Physic after grass. — Purging. — 

 Diseases of the eye. — Causes of blindness. — Blind coach- 

 horses. 



The last chapter was devoted specially to shoeing 

 and to the feet generally. I propose now to refer 

 to some of the evils which horseflesh is liable to. 



What is termed ' mud fever ' is a comparatively 

 modern ailment, and I can remember the time when 

 such a thing was never heard of. Of late years it 

 has become so common that I suppose there is not 

 a huntino; stable in the kinofdom which has not at 

 one time or other suffered from it in a greater or 



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