Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ddle galls, or on the points of the shoulders, from collargalls. When the animal is continued at the work that causes the galls,these calloused swellings make their appearance. What to do.—Any treatment other than the knife is of little use. Theycan be easily dissected out by cutting around them carefully and takmgthem out ]
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ddle galls, or on the points of the shoulders, from collargalls. When the animal is continued at the work that causes the galls,these calloused swellings make their appearance. What to do.—Any treatment other than the knife is of little use. Theycan be easily dissected out by cutting around them carefully and takmgthem out ])odily ; then treat the wound as a simple wound. Keep all 384 CYCLOPEDIA CF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK pressure off till it is thorouglilj healed. A breast collar can often beused in the place of the ordinary collar, while Avaiting for the wound toheal. XX. Siirfeit. Surfeit is the term applied to the breaking out of pimples on the is an effort of nature to throw off some of the impurities of the blood,due to plethora. When the body gets fat and the blood rich, the liverand kidneys often become inactive, and that throws an extra amount ofwork upon the sldn ; and surfeit is the effort of nature to get rid of super-fluous heat and effete A HORSE AFFLICTED WITH SURFEIT. Causes.—Too high living, with too little exercise. How to know it.—A rough, scabby surface will be found on the it comes out, suddenly, all over in little blotches, thatmay disappear in the course of a few days, or may scab over, owing tothe surface fever that usually accompanies it. Little or no difference,otherwise, is noticed in the health, of the horse. There is sometimes agreat amount of itching, and sometimes none. What to do.—From the nature of the affection, the treatment indicatedis to deplete the system. The best way to do is to give a full dose ofpurgative medicine, restrict the food, and give more exercise. The bestpurgative for the horse is from four
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