240 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



(3.) Strongylus. — This variety, and a species of 

 Filaria, are sometimes found in the blood vessels, and are 

 similar in the effects produced in the horse, to those seen 

 in sheep affected with rot. 



Cause. Feeding on wet and marshy land, and pasture 

 having been flooded with water. Who has not heard of 

 the effects produced from this cause, in animals grazed 

 upon the course of the river Nile, in Egypt, after each 

 inundation ? 



Treatment. Support the strength by good, generous feed- 

 ing, and give iron, and gentian, each two to three drachms, 

 once a day, removing the animal to high and dry pasture. 



(4.) ASCARIDES. * 



Cause. A bad habit of body, called cachexia and chlo- 

 rosis. 



Treatment. Give iron, gentian and arsenious acid, in 

 the following manner: Powdered sulphate of iron, two 

 drachms ; gentian root, two drachms ; arsenic, five grains ; 

 mix, and give in one dose in mixed, cut or soft feed, twics 

 or thi-ee times a week. 



Wounds. — They are divided into simple, incised, con- 

 tused, lacerated, j^unctured and poisoned. Wounds are 



PIRRCTOR AND PROBES USED IN THE CURB OF WOUNDS AND SORES. 



more or less dangerous, when entering the chest and belly ; 

 as are also poisoned wounds, or those from the bite of a, 

 mad dog. (See Bites.) 



