FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
597 
practically all that is required. The first and by all means the 
most important step to be taken is to place the animal in a dry, 
well-ventilated stable or shed; plenty of pure cold water should 
be allowed; if temperature is high a dose of potassium nitrate 
should be dissolved in the drinking water; this may act as a febri¬ 
fuge, and at the same time as a splendid mouth wash, soothing the 
aphthous eruptions and ulcerations in the mouth. The food 
should be soft and easy to masticate; green food is highly rec¬ 
ommended. When suppuration with separation of some part of 
the hoof takes place the detached parts should be gently removed 
and the ulcers washed with a mild astringent or antiseptic solu¬ 
tion and carefullv dressed with some tow. The following powder 
was also tried with a fair amount of success. 
Take of each cup. sulph. and pulv. charcoal, one ounce; chin- 
osol, two drams. 
Under this simple treatment the fever subsides, the ulcers heal 
up nicely and the animal recovers and even may be put to work 
in fifteen or twenty days’ time. 
President Berns, of the Veterinary Medical Association 
of New York City, appointed as delegates to the American Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association at Indianapolis, Drs. E. B. Acker¬ 
man, D. W. Cochran and R. S. MacKellar. 
Horses in- the Tropics. —According to the observations of 
Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Woodruff, chief surgeon of the 
western division of the army, gray and white horses live much 
longer in the tropics than darker colored horses. Almost the only 
ones that survive ordinary ailments in Manila are said to be 
white, gray, roan and light yellow. Among these the white 
horses predominate. Of one hundred Chinese mules bought for 
the Philippine constabulary in 1903 only four lived more than 
seven years, and these had milk white hair and jet black skin. 
Only mules of such a kind will be bought in future. Colonel 
Woodruff says: “ There is some unknown relation between color 
and nervousness. On review, the gray troop horse is actually 
phlegmatic, the sorrel quiet and the bays excitable and restless. 
Althoughp'Jike all colors, black horses are sometimes quiet, they 
are believed to be the most excitable of all.”—( Youth’s Com¬ 
panion and New York Tribune.) 
