t7& DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
of perfection, from the hair of its dam, on which they had bcex 
deposited, rather than from its own coat. The perfected ova, 
being thus taken into the mouth, became first entangled in ita 
mucus, and finally lodged in those shallow recesses at the root of 
the tongue, where they became hatched. Some of these creatures 
measured as much as three-eighths of an inch in length, and rather 
less than one in diameter. They were firmly fixed, by their little 
hocklets, apparently to the innei surface of the mucous follicles. 
Their free extremities were of a deep red color, and their bodies 
of a yellowish brown.’” 
Treatment.—The only remedy for ridding the system of bote is 
a run at grass, in the month of May. 
GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACA. 
Acute inflammation of the stomach seldom, if ever, occurs 
among horses as a spontaneous affection. It is usually occasioned 
by irritating medicines or poisons, or food of an inferior quality. 
When an irritating poison has been received into the stomach, and 
excites inflammation there, or when acute inflammation arises 
from any cause, the symptoms whicn mark that inflammation are 
pain, distress, and restlessness ; a loathing of food; for, if any thing 
be given by the mouth, it creates increased pain. The anima} 
breaks out in a cold sweat, lies down and quickly rises again, be- 
comes early and greatly prostrated in strength, and has a pulse 
usually quick and much oppressed. Sometimes purging sets in; 
at others, the bowels are constipated. The disease is very apt to 
run into gastro-enteritis—inflammation of the stomach and bowels, 
Treatment.—The general treatment consists in the administra- 
tion of slippery-elm mucilage, and half-ounce doses of chlorate of 
potass, two or three times per day. Should gas accumulate in the 
stomach or bowels, give one ounce of hyposulphite of soda, dissolved 
in a pint of warm water. The ordinary drink should consist of 
hay tea, to which a small quantity of molasses may he added, 
RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH. 
Rupture of the stomach is always a fatal malady, over which 
neither art nor nature has any control ; yet, the accident being one 
of frequent occurrence, it becomes necessary for us to know some 
