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times remove the- irregular tooth. These steps should be taken by a 
skillful operator with special instruments, never be knocked out with a punch. 
LAMPAS. 
Lampas is a disorder occurring especially among young horses, and 
consisting in inflammation and swelling of the front part of the palate, 
causing it to descend as low as the front teeth, or below them. It results 
from teething or derangement of the stomach, usually preventing the horse 
from eating. 
TREATMENT.—No treatment, as a rule, is necessary except that the 
horse be given bran and other soft food for a few days, and the mouth be 
occasionally washed with a solution made of a teaspoonful of alum and a 
half-pint of water. For derangement of the stomach, nux vomica is cften 
useful. Mercurius is also beneficial. Scarifying is unnecessary, but it is 
best to apply some soothing wash, as one of tincture of myrrh. Give lin-. 
seed-tea, gruel and bran-mashes, but no hay, until recovery ensues. 
SALIVATION.—“SLOBBERS,” 
Salivation, or undue flow of saliva, is caused by eating certain kinds of 
green food; administering mercury, whether by the nose or mouth, or by 
friction on the skin; inflammation of the mouth and salivary glands. It 
has sometimes occurred when it could be attributed only to some derange- 
ment of the nerves supplying the salivary gland. It is indicated by an un- 
usual flow of saliva, with or without offensive breath, and with or without 
sore mouth. When the administration of mercury is the cause, the teeth 
may be loose, the gums ulcerate, and general disorder of the stomach and 
bowels set in. 
TREATMENT.—When the cause is green food, change the feed and 
give a few drops of nitric acid or mercurius night and morning; if caused 
by mercury, give nitric acid, iodine, and iodide or chlorate of potassium. 
When traceable to nervous derangement, and not to mercury, give arseni- 
cum every four or five hours. In persistent cases, try chlorate or iodide 
potassa, rubbing iodine ointment over the glands, ynder the ears and be- 
tween the jaws. A wash of hydrastia and water (one part of fluid hydras- 
tia to ten of water), or an infusion of butternut-bark will restore the in- 
tegrity of the gums and lessen the flow of saliva. “Slobbers” which 
arises from feeding on low clover pasturage is often very disagreeable to 
the rider or driver, and he may give temporary relief by feeding a pint of 
dry bran, but a cure comes only by a change of pasture. 
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