Studies in horse breeding; an illustrated treatise on the science and practice of the breeding of horses . possible. Thereis but one satisfactory treatment, and it consists ofa serum treatment, which should be used by a veter-inarian only. The symptoms are lameness from swollenjoints, and the lameness will pass from one extremityto another in quite rapid succession. Foals droppedupon grass which is daily exposed to the sun are al-ways immune. Leucorrhea is a disease very discouraging to a are but two primary causes, a want of propernourishment, and congestion of the genital tract
Studies in horse breeding; an illustrated treatise on the science and practice of the breeding of horses . possible. Thereis but one satisfactory treatment, and it consists ofa serum treatment, which should be used by a veter-inarian only. The symptoms are lameness from swollenjoints, and the lameness will pass from one extremityto another in quite rapid succession. Foals droppedupon grass which is daily exposed to the sun are al-ways immune. Leucorrhea is a disease very discouraging to a are but two primary causes, a want of propernourishment, and congestion of the genital tract. Thelatter is often found in a catarrhal condition of themare, a condition where some inflammation of all mu- DISEASES OF THE HORSE 167 cc-us membranes is present. There is more or less dis-cliarge, and of a nature all the way from a thinwhitish and slimy substance, to a thick yellowish dis-charge. The hair on the underside of the tail is some-what glued together. Mares in this condition shouldnever be bred, as the disease is infectious, and nothingshould be done to spread the infection. Only two or. / Figure 42. Germ frequently found in barren mares. (1200diameters.) three per cent of such mares will breed, and onlywhen the semen is introduced directly into the are thousands of mares in the country that donot show the usual discharge by which leucorrhea isdiagnosed, and yet do show a catarrhal condition, andthey will not breed. These mares develop leucorrhea 168 STUDIES IN HORSE BREEDING later if not given treatment before they reach thatstage. In the treatment of this disease I wish to callthe attention of veterinarians to the fact, that whilethe disease itself may yield as quickly to the perman-ganate of potash treatment as any other, yet the factremains that mares do not breed, as a rule, after thattreatment. I have been confronted with the problemof barren mares, where the condition of barrenness wasthe result of leucorrhea in some of its many forms, formore
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