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 . hcu there is an openand how to pare it out. ^.^.^^^^ ^j^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ,^ ^^^j^ ^^^^^ instead. At cvcry dress-ing apply the carbolic lotion, and poultice right over it. If proud flesh comes up, keep it down ^vith powdered blue vitriol,applied once a day; if it comes up suddenly, as large as your thumb,you can cut it off with
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 . hcu there is an openand how to pare it out. ^.^.^^^^ ^j^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ,^ ^^^j^ ^^^^^ instead. At cvcry dress-ing apply the carbolic lotion, and poultice right over it. If proud flesh comes up, keep it down ^vith powdered blue vitriol,applied once a day; if it comes up suddenly, as large as your thumb,you can cut it off with perfect safety. Then, when it stops bleeding,dress it with the vitriol. As soon as there is no more matter, and thelameness is nearly gone, leave off the poultice and dress it once a daywith pine tar. If the joint is opened, in addition to the treatment given above spreadover the injured part of the foot, and also in the hollow of the pastern,Solid Extract of Belladonna, a piece as large as your little finger-nail,once a day and let the poultice go on cold, right over it. Continue/his as long as there is much lameness. If there is much fever, giveT^R^tue of Aconite Root in ten-drop doses, in a table-spoonful of coleorater every two hours until the horse is FEET OF THE HORSE AND THEIR DISEASES. 293 No change need be made in the shoeing, except to stuff tar and towover the nail-hole, under the shoe. If nail wounds are neglected lockjaw is very apt to follow. VI. Acute Founder or Laminitis. Founder is of two kinds, acute and chronic. It is acute where, whenit first takes place, all the symptoms are aggravated and the disease isattended with more or less fever. It is chronic when it has been of longstanding and the diseased condition has taken an organized form, willremain as it is and become a part of the organized system, but is notattended by any fever, other than a slight local heat. The inner surface of the wall of the hoof has horny leaves or laminae,very fine and n
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