3?6 HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



bility of a cure, for the ruptured cells can never be repaired. 

 Much may be done, however, to ward off the disease and to al- 

 leviate it. More depends upon the food and exercise than is 

 generally supposed. Horses that are greedy feeders and eat 

 large quantities of slightly nutritious food, when worked or 

 driven upon a full stomach, are the ones most likely to be 

 affected ; hence, the disease is more common among farmers' 

 horses, which are fed mostly upon hay, than among those kept 

 in livery stables and cities, where the ration of hay is limited 

 and grain is fed regularly. 



Narrow-chested horses are more subject to the heaves than 

 deep-chested ones. Dusty and mow-burnt hay should be 

 avoided. ~W#ter sparingly, particularly in the morning and 

 through the day when the animal is exercised. Green food is 

 always preferable to dry ; carrots are particularly useful ; they 

 are rapidly digested and seem to have a peculiar beneficial 

 effect upon the respiratory system. The horse affected with 

 heaves should have moderate exercise every day. He should 

 never be left standing in a draft of wind, and should always 

 have a blanket thrown over him when standing in harness out 

 of doors or under an open shed. 



Treatment. Give one part each fluid extract lobelia and oil 

 of tar ; give a teaspoonf ul twice daily ; better put on tongue 

 just at taking out of stable for use, or may be given in feed. 

 Give plenty salt, feed but little hay, and wet all feed. Put a 

 tablespoonful air-slacked lime to a pail of water for wetting 

 the food. 



Another remedy : Beat three eggs in one quart of pure 

 fruit vinegar and after it has stood about three days, or when 

 well incorporated together, add one pound strained honey. In 

 tablespoon doses it can be given in feed twice a day, or may 

 be placed on the tongue. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 

 The inflammation is in the mucous membrane or inner lin- 

 ing of the bladder. 



