162 DADD'S VELERINARY MEDICINE AND sORGERY. 
tice cruelty on animals. It is a fact that some men are often ap 
parently compelled to perform unnecessary operations even when 
the inward monitor admonishes them that they are about to out- 
rage the feelings of a poor dumb brute. Yet, for the honor of ow 
profession, let it be recorded that there are but few, if any, of our 
educated surgeons that can be induced to perpetrate this outrage. 
If medical men will only take the pains to explain this matter, and 
prove to the people that the enormity here complained of is both 
absurd and barbarous, then the evil will soon cease ; but so long 
as horse-owners believe lampas to be a disease, and men can he 
found ready to “burn them out,” just so long will the evil exist. 
The more intelligent portion of husbandmen are now beginning to 
lend their influence to the work of rebuking ignorance, and of re- 
forming the barbarous customs of bygone days, and, erelong, it will 
be a difficult job to convince them that their horses have lampas, 
and that the firing-iron is the remedy indicated. Surely, if the 
distinguished PERCIVALL calls lampas a “supposed malady,” and 
sets his face against the means used for its removal, the wise men 
of the fleam should indorse his sentiments. 
Treatment.—Should the colt’s mouth, while teething, be hot and 
tender, it should be sponged often with a portion of equal parts of 
vinegar and water; and should any of the teeth appear imprisoned 
by the membrane of the mouth, a slight incision over the point of 
the tocth will give immediate relief. 
SPONTANEOUS SALIVATION— SLAVER™NG.” 
Persons who own and handle horses must have noticed, occa- 
sionally, a foaming at the mouth, and sometimes a constant and 
profuse discharge of saliva. This, when occurring without any 
assignable cause, is termed spontaneous salivation. The disease is 
usually occasioned by some irritation in the immediate vicinity of 
the salivary glands, or from perverted function in the glands 
themselves. The preparations of antimony and calomel, when 
given to horses for any great length of time, in the form of con- 
dition powders, are very apt to produce salivation, Musty clover, 
and hay that is intermixed with lobelia, will also produce it; so, 
also, will sharp, projecting teeth; and diseased teeth have the same 
effect. In such cases, the cause being discovered, the removal of 
the sume is the first step toward the cure. “hen drench ‘he ani 
mal, twice daily, with the following: 
