386 HORSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



with dry sulphur. Continue to use the salve until the scabs 

 come off, when only the sulphur need be used. If scabs show- 

 again, use salve again. Whenever the legs are wet dry with 

 the sulphur. 



Still another preparation may be had in the following: 

 Clean the parts affected with castile soap and warm water, 

 then apply carbolic acid reduced with water to twenty parts to 

 one of acid ; apply with a sponge and cover the heel with a 

 dry bandage ; repeat at intervals. 



SPAVINS. 



Blood and bog spavin are one and the same disease, techni- 

 cally called bursal enlargements. Usually there is no pain or 

 apparent inconvenience to the animal, but when its presence is 

 accompanied by lameness it is due either to acute inflammation 

 of the cartilage membrane covering the articular surface of 

 the bones constituting the joints, or it may be the result of 

 injury to the bone itself. In either case no time should be 

 lost in prompt and judicious treatment. 



Treatment. Bathe the parts affected with hot water for ten 

 or fifteen minutes ; then rub tolerably dry and apply Dimon's 

 Spavin Cure or some other spavin cure or strong liniment twice 

 a day. If of long standing a blister may be applied, composed 

 of iodine and mercurial ointment in equal parts, and rub well ; 

 if the first application does not have the desired effect in 

 twenty-four hours, repeat ; then discontinue, but, if necessary, 

 apply again in two weeks. 



SAND CRACK OR SPLIT HOOF. 



Sand crack is a crack in the wall of the hoof, running with 

 the grain or up and down, occurring either at the quarters or 

 at the toe. The former is sometime called " quarter-crack," the 

 other "toe-crack." Quarter-crack most frequently occurs in 

 the fore feet and at the inner quarters ; toe-crack in the hind 

 feet. 



Treatment. The foot should be rested, or at least that part 

 of it where the crack occurs, which, if in the fore foot, may be 



