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 . ^ which some-times makes the horse almost frantic,rubbing, scratching and biting himselfcontinually. Causes.—It is one form of surfeitwhen not due to mange or hen lice,and is caused by a heated, surfeitedcondition of the body, which mani-fests itself in this manner. What to do.—Give the horse a pur-gative. No. 23, and when h
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 . ^ which some-times makes the horse almost frantic,rubbing, scratching and biting himselfcontinually. Causes.—It is one form of surfeitwhen not due to mange or hen lice,and is caused by a heated, surfeitedcondition of the body, which mani-fests itself in this manner. What to do.—Give the horse a pur-gative. No. 23, and when he has fin- showing signs of purging, give a tablespoonful of the followiug, in bran mashes morn-ing and night. No. 37. 4 Ounces Epsom salts, 2 Ounces nitrate of potash4 Ounces hn^ed meal,Mix. Wash him all over with soap and water, and when dry, sponge him overwith vinegar. If practicable, give green food for a Melanosis. This, although a constitutional disease, is only seen to be recognizedduring life, on the surface of the body, therefore it will be describedin this PREDISPOSED TO and class of horses usually affected with melanosis. Melanosis is considered to be a species of cancer. It is a black tumorforming on any part of the body—in the lungs, liver, muscular andareolar or connective tissue. It is, in the latter, immediately under the 390 CTCLOPEDTA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOri-OS. skin that it is found during life in the horse ; usually around the cavities and abscesses are apt to form around them. One fully sixinches deep, and located under the tail was seen by the author lately. They seem to be confined to white horses ; even grays are not afflictedwith them. Causes.—The cause lies in the blood—in the form of a predispositionto cancer. How to know it.—Black tumors form under theskin but show through quite distinctly; theyare usually flat and irregularly round, about halfan inch or an inch
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