. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fistulous Fig. 453. The appearance of bots in stomach of horse. (From Diseases of the Horse. U. S. Dept. Agric.) poultices are sometimes required for a day or two after an abscess has opened, and are particularly indicated when the base of the abscess is hard and indurated. The cavity should be thorougly washed with stimulating antiseptic solutions, such as 3 per cent solution of carbolic acid, 3 to 5 per cent solu- tion of creolin, 1 to 1,000 bichlorid of mercury, or 1 per cent permanganate of potash solution. If the a
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fistulous Fig. 453. The appearance of bots in stomach of horse. (From Diseases of the Horse. U. S. Dept. Agric.) poultices are sometimes required for a day or two after an abscess has opened, and are particularly indicated when the base of the abscess is hard and indurated. The cavity should be thorougly washed with stimulating antiseptic solutions, such as 3 per cent solution of carbolic acid, 3 to 5 per cent solu- tion of creolin, 1 to 1,000 bichlorid of mercury, or 1 per cent permanganate of potash solution. If the abscesses are foul and bad smelling, their cavities should be syringed with one part of hydrogen peroxid to two parts of water, followed by the injection of any of the above-mentioned antiseptics. Bots. (Fig. 453.) Bots are the larva? of the bot-fly, a heavy-bodied hairy insect. The larva? are thick, fleshy grubs liv- ing practically in the intestinal tract of horses. The injury to the horse from the presence of the larvae may take one or all of four forms : (1) The attach- ment to the walls of the stomach may cause an irritation which may interfere with the normal action of the glands that secrete digestive juices ; (2) the bots abstract some nutriment from the walls of the stomach, or by absorption from the food content of the organ ; (3) by collecting, par- ticularly in the region of the pylorus (opening of the stomach into the intestine), they serve as an obstruction to the free passage of food from the stomach into the intestine ; (4) in passing through the intestine after they have released their hold on the walls of the stomach, they may attach them- selves to the intestinal wall or rectal walls and cause great irritation. The eggs are deposited in the hair, usually of the front legs and chest of a horse, and are held there by a sticky fluid, which quickly dries and glues them firmly in place. The eggs are taken into the horse's month by licking, and if so taken between t
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