STRAINS AND BRUISES.

In case the horse be injured by a Strain or a Bruise, rub on the affected part the following mixture:

If the Strain be of old standing, the following lini

mixed. This remedy is also useful in spavins, wind

galls, and indurated swellings.

the following:

Or, if preferred, use

In case of a sore back, arising from the friction

When the animal is afflicted with a teasing cough, it

may be relieved by the following drink :-

Horses on a journey are frequently attacked by an inflammation in the eyes, which may be removed by the following applications :--

When the symptoms of Fever appear, a rider should administer the following drink :

Mix, and give it in a pint of warm gruel, to be repeated once or twice a-day, or oftener if necessary. Though simple, it may be given in most kinds of fevers, and will generally be attended with success. In an inflammatory fever, give the following drink :

Emetic Tartar

1 drachm.

rubbed into powder, with five drops of spirits of wine.

To be given every four hours, or three times a-day, in a pint of water-gruel.

The following is also strongly recommended :—

20 grains.

- 20 grains.

Syrup enough to form a dose for one dose.

Or

Emetic Tartar

Compd. powd. Tragacanth

11⁄2 drachms.

2 drachms.

Syrup enough to form the ball for one dose.

It is, however, necessary to remark, that no medicine will avail much in fever, particularly if violent, if bleeding be neglected.

In febrile complaints, accompanied with costiveness, or in slight cases of grease, no medicine is safer than castor oil; one pint of which may be given for one dose. An experienced farrier recommends three or four ounces of common salt, well dissolved in watergruel, with eight ounces of linseed oil. He adds,

though we have prescribed linseed oil, there is no doubt castor oil is preferable; but this cannot always be procured readily; and as many may object to the expense of it where the disorder is but trifling, linseed oil may, on such occasions, be substituted. Salad oil is still better. We have recommended common salt in preference to Glaubers and Epsom salts because it is more certain in its effect, and may be given in smaller doses."

Here it may also be proper to observe, that nothing

is more useful as an article of diet for sick or convalescent horses, than water-gruel, provided it is properly made, and as this is seldom done, we shall give the best method of making it. Take of fine and sweet oatmeal, four ounces; water, two quarts; put the water over a slow clear fire to boil, and mix the oatmeal gradually, with as much cold water as will make the mixture quite liquid: add this to the water over the fire before it gets very hot, and continue to stir the whole till it boils: the gruel is then made, but may be improved by letting it simmer some time longer over a slow clear fire, for horses are very nice, and perhaps would not touch it if in the least smoky. Should the gruel be too thick, add warm water.

INFLAMMATION OF THE SPLEEN.

I never met with this disease in my own practice, but I have lately heard of a very well authenticated one, in which the symptoms so exactly resembled Hepatitis, as to be mistaken by a very observant practitioner for that. An active and judicious treatment was promptly pursued, but the violence of the disease destroyed the horse on the fourth day. On examination, the spleen was highly inflamed and nearly gangrenous, while the surrounding viscera were unaffected.

A chronic enlargement of the spleen is less rare, and produces symptoms not unlike jaundice, even to the yellow tinge of the skin. Rupture also of the spleen occasionally occurs.

INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.

Hepatitis is not a frequent occurrence in veterinary practice, for the liver of the horse is but seldom primarily affected with inflammation; though when other great abdominal inflammations take place then this often participates, and now and then also it becomes the immediate object of attack, in which cases the only difference between the symptoms and those of hepatitis are, that they are not quite so violent, and that there is usually a yellow tinge in the conjunctive nasal and buccal membranes. When it terminates unfavourably, it usually disorganizes the liver into a grumous mass. It is mostly occasioned by some undue exertion. A few years ago several cases fell under my notice, at the close of a very hot summer, in most of which extensive anasarca appeared. The cure should be attempted by the same means as are detailed in enteratis, but with the recollection that active purgatives may be administered with advantage. The following is a proper form, and should be repeated every four or five hours until the costiveness, which is usually present, is overcome :

Hepatitis is now and then accompanied with diarrhoea; in which case use the lancet sparingly, and give the

following:

Castor Oil

Gruel or Linseed-tea

Ipecacuhana

4 ounces.

6 ounces.

1 drachm.

By the help of the yolk of two eggs beaten with the oil, and the gruel added gradually, a smooth uniform