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The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



digestion impaired, breathing deep and excited, conditior 

 poor and getting worse, hair dry, rough, erect and often 

 shedding, and swellings appear along the lower part of 

 the body into the limbs and chest. 



Treatment. Fmd out and remove if possible the tnie 

 primary cause. "When that has ceased to act employ 

 purgatives, but especially diuretics (digitalis, oil of tur- 

 pentine, iodide of potassium, squills, colchicum, nitre, etc.,) 

 in as full doses as the strength will permit, with tonics 

 (sulphate of iron, gentian, nux vomica,) and apply tinct- 

 ure of iodine over the abdomen. The liquid may be drawn 

 off with a fine cannula and trocar, one-half only being 

 extracted at a time, and the flaccid walls at once sup 

 ported by a tight bandage encircling the body. 



GASTRIC AND INTESTINAL PARASITES. 



Larva of Insects. — Bots. These are the larva of foiu 

 different species of gadfly that pester horses in summer 



Fig. 20. Fig. 22. 



Fig. 20— Bot-fly. CEstrus Eqni. 



Fig. 21. 



Pig 22 — Bots hooked on the mucoiLi 

 Fig. 21 — Bot. Larva of CEstrus. membrane of the stomach. 



and autumn, gluing their little white ovoid eggs on the 

 long hairs beneath the jaws, on the breast, shoulders and 

 fore limbs on which the empty shells may be carried 

 through the winter. When the horse hcks himself the Hve 

 smbryo is extracted from the egg and swallowed or in the 



