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Treatment.—Rub mustard into the skin of the loins. Cover it over 
to prevent it becoming dry. Apply fresh sheepskins as soon as these 
can be procured. Inject warm linseed tea every hour. A ball com- 
posed of Croton farina, two scruples; extract of belladonna, half a 
drachm; treacle and linseed meal, a sufficiency, should be given imme- 
diately; one scruple of calomel; one drachm of opium should be 
sprinkled on the tongue every hour. A pail of linseed tea may be 
placed in the manger. Feed on linseed tea, and mind the oats—when 
allowed—are very good. While the pain is acute, give, thrice daily, a 
ball composed of extract of belladonna, half a drachm; crude opium, 
two drachms; honey and linseed meal, of each a sufficiency. When 
the pain is excessive, repeat the above ball every hour. Should the 
pulse increase and become wiry, a scruple of aconite should be thrown 
upon the tongue every half hour until the artery softens, or the animal 
becomes affected with the drug. 
No cure is to be expected; the disease may be arrested, but the kid- 
ney must be left in an irritable state. 
OCCULT SPAVIN. 
Cause.—Treading on a stone. 
Symptoms.—Sudden lameness, which never departs, but in the end 
becomes very bad. The disease is always worse after work, and better 
after rest. The foot is without disease, and the leg is not hot or pain- 
ful; yet the lameness continues and gets worse. The leg is snatched 
up in the walk, and the foot is not turned outward. 
Treatment.—Get the horse into slings. Rub the front of the hock 
with an embrocation composed of compound soap liniment, sixteen 
ounces; tincture of cantharides, liquor ammonia and laudanum, of each 
two ounces. After the joint is embrocated, wrap it round with flannel, 
held upon the hock with elastic rings. Give three feeds of corn, a few 
old beans, and sweet hay daily. After the horse bears upon the dis- 
eased limb, allow the slings to remain for three months. Three months 
after it has left the slings, put to gentle work, but mind the labor is not 
in any way exhausting. The work must not be full till six months have 
elapsed. Keep the bowels regular with bran mashes and green-meat. 
If all treatment fail, cast the horse; retract the injured limb; make a 
small puncture, and inject one ounce of dilute spirits of wine, in which. 
half a drachm of iodine has been dissolved. Place the horse in slings, 
and apply cold water to the hock. When the pulse is quiet, feed very 
liberally. 
