60 Stable Management and the Prevention of Disease 

 2. Hydrocyanic acid (Scheele's strength) J ounce. 



Water 



Camphor finely powdered 

 Biborate of soda . , . 

 Water . . . , 



12 ounces. 



2 drachms. 



1 ounce. 

 16 ounces. 



Kerosene well rubbed in will sometimes apparently cure ; 

 but, so far as I have seen, the itchiness always returns in 

 about a fortnight, except towards the end of the hot season. 



Mr. J. Oliphant strongly recommends petroleum mixed 

 with four parts of oil, and states that it cures permanently. 

 T never had an opportunity of trying it, having had no cases 

 to treat during my last three years in India. 



Thkushes. 



Thrushes and wounds of feet require much more attention 

 than in England, for unless well protected they are liable to 

 become full of maggots, owing to the swarms of flies which 

 settle on them and lay their eggs. 



With proper shoeing thrushes ought to be very rare in such 

 a dry climate as that of most parts of India. By lowering 

 the walls and never allowing any but the ragged parts of the 

 soles and frogs to be removed, the latter will in most horses 

 touch the ground after a few months, when the constant 

 pressure upon them wiU. almost entirely prevent the forma- 

 tion of thrushes. 



For keeping away flies from wounds I know of nothing 

 better than a thick mixture of sulphur and oil smeared on 

 daily. 



WoEM IN THE Eye. 



Worm in the eye is common in some parts of the country, 

 and my experience is that those parts are always districts 

 in which there are marshes. 



According to Professor Williams, ' There are two kinds of 

 worms found in the eye — the filaria oculi and the strongylus 

 — both of which are also found in the intestines, the blood- 

 vessels, and the areolar tissue of the loins. In the last 

 situation they are supposed to be sometimes the cause of the 



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