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 . or pasture, and giving the following powder, night and morning, for a month, in soft food: Half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, Two drachms pi-ecipitated phosphate of lime. Mix, and give as one dose. See that the drinking water is good, and give plenty of common Exostosis of the Jaw. This consists in the growth of
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 . or pasture, and giving the following powder, night and morning, for a month, in soft food: Half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, Two drachms pi-ecipitated phosphate of lime. Mix, and give as one dose. See that the drinking water is good, and give plenty of common Exostosis of the Jaw. This consists in the growth of bony tumors on the lower jaw, wherethey are quite often seen. Causes.—It is usually caused by some ex-ternal injury, often by the curb-chain. How to know it.—They are sometimesspread over a large portion of the jawbone, witha very broad base; sometimes they are in theform of little nodules the size of the end of a bony thumb, with a very small base. They caused by perfectly hard and do nt) harm, usually, further than to be an eyesore. What to do.—Treatment is useless, owing to the late stage of theinflammation. If the true nature of the disease is known while the tumoris forming, repeated blistering with No. 10 will do much 374 OrCX4}FlSDIA OF LITE STOCK AND OOMFL^TTB STOCK DOOTOB. VI. Broken Back. Causes.—The back is sometimes broken by heavy objects falling onit; this quite frequently happens in Northern cities by snow and ice slid-ing off the roofs of houses. Sometimes the horse falls through traps andholes, and the back is sometimes broken when being cast for opera-tions. How to know it.—If the spinous processes only are broken, there willnot be much change in outward appearance ; but the crepitation charac-teristic of all fractures will be noticed and probably some alteration inthe straight outline of the back will follow—it will become depressed inthe region of the fracture. But, if the back is broken so as to press
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