. A treatise on the horse and his diseases. g he can get at. Small pimples are seenabout the head and neck and under the hair falls off and leaves the skin exposed, with red colored poyits andfissures. The skin becomes dry and bald, and there is great itching. Treai?nent.^Give the horse a good scrubbing, with a coarse brush, andthen wash him well with castile soap and water, and diy carefully. Assoon as the horse is thoroughly dried, apply an ointment made as follows: Sulphur, four ounces ; lard,ten ounces; carbolic acid,half ounce ; mixed. This disease being con-tagious, persons shou
. A treatise on the horse and his diseases. g he can get at. Small pimples are seenabout the head and neck and under the hair falls off and leaves the skin exposed, with red colored poyits andfissures. The skin becomes dry and bald, and there is great itching. Treai?nent.^Give the horse a good scrubbing, with a coarse brush, andthen wash him well with castile soap and water, and diy carefully. Assoon as the horse is thoroughly dried, apply an ointment made as follows: Sulphur, four ounces ; lard,ten ounces; carbolic acid,half ounce ; mixed. This disease being con-tagious, persons should becareful to have everythingused about the horse thor-oughly cleansed and subject-ed to great heat, by steamingor boiling, to destroy theinsect which is the causeof the disease. It wouldbe well to apply some ofthe ointment given aboveto parts of the stall, rubbing-posts, etc. SORES.—Of the greatvariety of sores many are what might be termed healthy sores, while othersbecome unhealthy. The former are best treated with tincture of opium. SYMPTOMS OP MANGE. SPAVIN. 33 two ounces, tannin one drachm, mixed and applied in small quantities twoor^hpee times a day. The unhealthy sore is best treated by cleansing thesqre and applying Kendalls Spavin Cure twice a day. In some cases, wherethere is proud flesh, cauterize the part with nitrate of silver or blue vite-iol,and, after a few hours, apply Kendalls Spavin Cure. Kendalls Spavin Cure has given entire satisfaction whenever used, toour knowledge, for healthy or unhealthy sores on m-an or heast. It shouldbe used by applying a small quantity directly into the sore after it has beencleansed. SPAVIN.—{For location see cut (/skeleton.) In nearly all cases of lame-ness in the hind leg the seat of the disease will be found to be in the hock-joint, although many persons (not having had experience) locate the diffi-culty in the hip, simply because they can not detect any swelling of thehock-joint; but in many of the worst cases there is
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