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produced, and many a valuable horse destroyed. It is not uncommon 
for wind-galls entirely to disappear in aged horses. 
A slight wind-gall will scarcely be subjected to treatment; but if 
these tumors are numerous and large, and seem to impede the motion 
of the limb, they may be attacked first by bandage. The rollers should 
be of flannel, and soft pads should be placed on each of the enlarge- 
ments, and bound down tightly upon them. The bandage should also 
be wetted with the lotion recommended for sprain of the back sinews. 
The wind-gall will often diminish or disappear by this treatment, but 
will too frequently return when the horse is again hardly worked. A 
blister is a more effectual but too often temporary remedy. Wind-galls 
will return with the renewal of work. Firing is still more certain, if the 
tumors are sufficiently large and annoying to justify our having recourse 
to measures so severe ; for it will not only effect the immediate absorp- 
tion of the fluid and the reduction of the swelling, but by contracting 
the skin will act as a permanent bandage, and therefore prevent the re- 
appearance of the tumor. The iodine and mercurial ointments have 
occasionally been used with advantage in the proportion of three parts 
of the former to two of the latter. 
The following formulae may be said to contain most of the remedies 
necessary for the use of the amateur; when disease prevails, the safest 
plan is to call in the assistance of a veterinary practitioner. 
When calomel or emetic tartar is given for the expulsion of worms, it 
should be mixed in a small portion of bran mash, after fasting the animal 
five or six hours ; two doses given at similar intervals will be most effective. 
They must be worked off with linseed oil or aloes, after an equivalent 
lapse of time; and as alkalies neutralize the effects of either of those 
medicines, soap must be excluded if the form of ball is preferred. 
As an external stimulating application for the throat in cases of in- 
flammation arising from cold or other causes, common mustard, mixed 
with water as for the table is an excellent remedy, and is equal if not 
superior to any of the more complicated nostrums. 
When cooling remedies are required to the legs, cold water is the 
best. The introduction of nitre and sal-ammoniac will increase the 
evaporation ; but great care is requisite to renew such medicated lotions 
very frequently ; because when the refrigerating process is over, they 
become stimulants; thus on ordinary occasions cold water constantly 
applied with very loose linen bandages is to be preferred. 
TABLE SHOWING THE PROPORTIONS OF MEDICINES TO BE GIVEN TO HORSES 
AT VARIOUS AGES. 
Calomel or Tnrtarized 
Antimony. 
Grain*. 
To foals 10 
Yearlings 16 to 20 
Two years old 20 25 
Three years old 25 30 
Four years old and upward 30 60 
Linseed Oil. 
Ounces. 
4 to 6 
6 8 
8 12 
12 16 
1 2 pts. 
Aloes. 
Drachms. 
ito 1 
1 H 
2 2 * 
21 3f 
4 6 
