41 8 Veterinary Medicine. 



All forms of spoiled food, damp, musty, or fermented fodders 

 should be withheld, especially in the case of young and growing 

 horses. 



Indian corn, wheat and buckwheat should be carefully excluded 

 from the grain ration or if used should be combined with i oz. 

 sulphate of soda for each animal daily. 



Damp, close, filthy and underground (basement) stables should 

 be avoided, the building on the other hand should be placed on 

 high, porous and well drained ground, and should be clean, 

 moderately well lighted and well ventilated but without draughts. 

 While such special stable hygiene is demanded for all, it is doubly 

 demanded for young horses under six years of age. 



As every debilitating condition renders the already predisposed 

 animal more open to attack, all causes of ill health should be 

 guarded against, and especially for the young, and in the case of 

 such as are inevitable, every effort should be made to curtail and 

 lessen the evil influence. Food or water which contains the eggs 

 and embryos of intestinal worms, must be avoided and parasites 

 which have already invaded the system must be got rid of as far 

 as possible. Care must be taken to exclude the various infec- 

 tious diseases, and in case of their introduction, to adopt every 

 measure to mitigate their violence and to prevent debility and 

 weakness. Overwork and irregular feeding and watering must 

 be guarded against. 



At the same time moderate work or exercise daily which will 

 develop the highest tone of the muscles, nervous system, diges- 

 tion, assimilation and other functions is a measure that can 

 never be neglected. Idleness with resulting fatness, softness and 

 weakness of muscle, and lowering of the power of endurance 

 is always an invitation to renewed attacks. Regular invigor- 

 ating work is essential ; exhausting work is injurious. 



Change of locality to a drier soil, clearer, drier atmosphere, 

 and more abundant sunshine, when it can be availed of, is a most 

 important preventive measure. Reynal who made an extended 

 ofiScial inquiry into this matter found conclusive evidence of its 

 truth. Young horses removed from the low affected regions of 

 Cantal, Poitou, Brittany and Anjou rarely suffered another at- 

 tack when taken to the highland of Catalonia, and those moved 

 from the damp lands 'of Franche Compte, Bresse, Dauphiny, 

 Provence, lyanguedoc, Bassigny and Belgium to the dry, cal- 



