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HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



FOOT SHOWING CORN. 



CORNS. 



A corn is a bruise of the sensitive 

 sole, its seat being in point of the sole 

 in the angle between the wall and the 

 bar, and almost always found on the 

 inside of the fore foot. 



Treatment. Have them pared out 

 and the cavity filled with pine tar; then 

 shoe with either bar shoes or with com- 

 mon shoes with a leather sole under 

 them between the foot and the shoe. 



DISTEMPER. 



Distemper is the usual name applied to all forms of com- 

 mon epidemic that usually proves contagious, going through the 

 stable ; it may prevail in different degrees of severity, from a 

 slight cold to a dangerous influenza. 



Symptoms. The prevailing symptoms are shivers, cough, 

 and staring coat, failing of appetite and high fever ; also a 

 swelling of the legs and about the head and neck — the throat 

 being the most dangerous part. The nose discharges a yellow- 

 ish substance, sometimes quite offensive to the smell, but if it 

 runs freely, so much the better. 



Treatment. Keep warm and clean ; give aconite, fifteen 

 drops at a time in a little water, every two hours when the 

 fever is moderately high ; but, in severe cases, give aconite as 

 often as once in a half-hour for a while. 



For swollen throat caused by distemper, bind burdock leaves 

 steeped in cider vinegar under the throat ; apply hot. I have 

 also found the following treatment for colds and distemper 



quite beneficial : 



1 pint good whisky. 



2 ounces capsicum. 



2 ounces oil spikenard. 

 Mix, and apply twice daily, externally, on the glands of the throat. 



In my own practice I use Dimon's Spavin Cure diluted with 

 water, and applied as hot as can be borne. I find this gives 



