. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... the host, in which they are fully developed. For after wetseasons horses out at grass during August and September aregenerally found affected with worms and parasites, which show theireffects in winter and early spring. November is, therefore, theproper time to treat such cases, before they become too welldeveloped. One tablespoonful each of flowers of sulphur and commonsalt should be given in a mash of oats and bran once every dayevery alternate fortnight, both in the stable and at grass duri
. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... the host, in which they are fully developed. For after wetseasons horses out at grass during August and September aregenerally found affected with worms and parasites, which show theireffects in winter and early spring. November is, therefore, theproper time to treat such cases, before they become too welldeveloped. One tablespoonful each of flowers of sulphur and commonsalt should be given in a mash of oats and bran once every dayevery alternate fortnight, both in the stable and at grass during thewinter months. The land on which the animals pasture should bedressed with roughly crushed rock-salt—say, 8 to 10 hundredweightper acre. Although salt is the best and safest germicide we have in 158 VETERINARY LECTURES nature, not nearly enough of it is applied to the land. Every yearthe above quantity, at least, should be put on the grazing land, leaground, and the meadov^s. This will not only check parasitic diseasesin horses and cattle, but will also prevent many of the insect ravages. Fig. G.—Tubercular Spleen of Horse. I, I, I. Spleen. 2, 2, 2, 2. Tubercular deports. and diseases of crops—as, for example, anbury or club root inturnips. But to do good, a continued annual application is required. 255. Colic (Plate XX. A).—Pure and simple colic may be definedas a severe crampy pain in the belly, and is classed under threedifferent heads—viz., spasmodic, flatulent, and the two combined,or spasmo-fiatulent. The majority of complications found inconnexion with the abdominal organs are, however, accompanied PLATE XX
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