510 ALPHABETICAL SUMMARY. 
against the wall; saliva dribbles from the lips; quidding or partial 
mastication of the food, and allowing the morsel to fall from the mouth. 
Appetite capricious; sometimes spirit is displayed-then the horse is 
equally dejected. The tooth dies; the opposing tooth grows long. 
The opposite teeth become very sharp, from the horse masticating only 
on one side. The long tooth presses upon the gum and provokes nasal 
gleet. 
Treatment.—Chisel off projecting tooth; file down the sharp edges 
of the opposite teeth, and look to the mouth frequently. 
TETANUS. 
Causes.—Cold rain; draughts of air; too much light; wounds. 
Symptoms.—The wound often dries up. The horse grows fidgety. 
Upon lifting up the head, ‘‘the haw” projects over the eye. The tail is 
raised; the ears are pricked; the head is elevated; the limbs are stiff; 
the body feels hard. Any excitement may call up a fearful spasm. 
Treatment.—Give a double dose of purgative medicine. Place in 
solitude and in quiet. Put a pailful of gruel and a thin mash within 
easy reach of the head. Let nobody excepting the favorite groom 
approach the place; and allow him to enter it only once a day. 
THOROUGH-PIN. 
Cause.—Excessive labor. 
Symptom.—A round tumor going right through the leg, and appear- 
ing anterior to the point of the hock. It is nearly always connected 
with bog spavin. 
Treatment.—Never attack thorough-pin and bog spavin at the same 
time. Relieve the thorough-pin first by means of rags, cork, and an 
India-rubber bandage, cut so as not to press on the bog spavin. If the 
corks occasion constitutional symptoms, use a truss to press upon the 
thorough-pin, which, being destroyed, apply a perfect bandage and 
wetted cloths to the bog spavin. When attempting to cure bog spavin, 
however, continue the remedy to the thorough-pin, or the cure of one 
affection may reproduce the other. 
THRUSH. 
Cause.—Standing in filth, when it appears in the hind feet; navicular 
disease, when seen in contracted feet. 
Symptoms.—A foul discharge running from the cleft of the frog. 
