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APTHA, OR THRUSH IN THE HORSE. 
ulso a little nitre may be ^iven in the mashes. If the moutli 
appears very sore, it may be washed or syringed with a lotion, 
composed of alum, honey, and water.’’ 
Blaine thus writes under the head, ‘^Condition of Horses:’' 
'‘The morbid change which takes place in the stomach and a\imen- 
tary canal in the state called ‘ out of condition’ is not sufficiently 
defined ; and whether it is a diseased state of structure or of sur¬ 
face, or whether it arises from a vitiation of the secretions of the 
parts, is not altogether clear. If we argued from some appear¬ 
ances that occur, as the inflamed and swollen state of that cuti- 
cular portion of the alimentary canal which lines the mouth, 
particularly the thickened state of the cuticle of the tongue, 
we should be led to infer a diseased alteration in the cuticular 
lining of the canal throughout. I have observed, in two instances 
which occurred of horses being accidentally killed, that the 
cuticular portion of the stomach was relaxed, and streaked with 
marks of inflammation. The secreting villous portion was not 
without some marks of inflammation also. 1 should, reasoning 
analogically, be jjrompted to believe that the secretions them¬ 
selves might become vitiated, and that this affection, as well as 
some others, were purely dyspeptic, and dependent on an altered 
state of the gastric secretions.” Also under the article “ Lampas,” 
i find the following : “ This tumefaction of the palate is not un¬ 
frequent among young horses, and is sometimes occasioned by 
the later dentitions; and at others is dependent on some de¬ 
rangement of the stomach and alimentary canal. It is very 
common among young horses when first stabled, from the inflam¬ 
matory tendency of a change of food, confinement, &c., if it is 
evidently not the result of teething. Examine the general con¬ 
dition, and the probable circumstance of derangement of the 
alimentary canal. Are there any appearances of worms? Has 
there been any recent change of food ? Or has the horse been 
lately much confined ? If none of these causes are apparent, 
it is very probable that some lassitude may be observed, or that 
the hair, hide, See. will detect some affection of stomach.” 
Among other authors, it is alluded to under diseases or affec¬ 
tions of the mouth, whether the result of accident or otherw ise ; 
among which are paps, barbs, gaggs, washes, lampas, denti¬ 
tion, canker, s(juirrel-tailed grass, impure vegetables. See. &c.; 
and, although last, by no means the most unfrequent, that 
aflection of the throat which I should term a relaxed or ulcer¬ 
ated sore thioat, consequent on catarrhal or pneumonic affections, 
and attendant on which we invariably find a peculiarly un¬ 
pleasant fetor of the breath which, in pure thrush, is, for the 
most part, wanting; at least, so far as my observation has gone, 
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