THE HORSE—GENERAL DISEASES AND INJURIES. 195 
Keep the horse quiet, but allow him to move when so inclined. In severe 
or long-standing cases, when the animal is unable to stand or lie down 
without much pain, it will be best to devise a sling and pulley to relieve 
the limbs of their burden. Give bran-mashes, carrots, clover, and milk- 
gruels. Care for the general health is the best of known expedients, es- 
pecially in chronic rheumatism, and is the best preventive. 
CRAMP. 
Symptoms.—tin this disorder, which is a pain and knotting of the 
muscles after severe or long-continued exertion, the horse is sore and stiff; 
shows tenderness on pressure of the muscles, with difficulty and pain in 
moving the legs; hesitates to lie down, then drops suddenly, with a similar 
difficulty in rising; evinces but little change in appetite, pulse or respiration. 
TREATMENT.—Arnica should be given immediately after any length- 
ened or severe exertion which demands great muscular efforts, a dose 
every four hours; it will act both as a preventive and asa cure. Rhus is 
preferable after the specific symptoms have appeared and the horse is stiff 
and sore. Brisk rubbing followed by the application of bandages on the 
limbs is often all that is necessary to give the required relief. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
Farcy consists in sores incident to glanders, and is not a separate dis- 
ease. The two constitute one of the most loathsome and fatal diseases of 
the horse, which is very highly contagious, being imparted to some other do- 
mestic animals and to man. It is some form of blood-poison, and may be 
taken from contact of the virus with some broken or irritated part of the 
skin, or by absorption from the air, and the poison is lasting, the virus retain- 
ing its potency after lying in a stall for months. Occasionally a sound 
horse is found which will not take the disease. The virus is more danger- 
ous when in food than in water. One horse often gets the disease by be- 
ing with an affected one, or in his stall, or contracts it from a man who has 
been handling a horse so diseased. If the animal has been in any way re- 
duced in his system, he is made more liable to the disease, and catarrh, 
strangles, and other disorders may terminate in glanders. 
Symptoms of Glanders.—The jrst symptoms of glanders are these: 
Quick pulse and breathing; feverish excitement; a thin, inodorous, trans- 
parent discharge, generally from one nostril, usually the left, the right be- 
ing less affected; light leaden or purplish hue in the mucous membrane of the 
nose. This set of symptoms may last weeks or even months, with the 
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