BOTS OR GRUBS.
The Bots or Grubs are small worms of a red or brownish color, found in the stomach, and it is considered almost impossible for them to do any harm, but a horse that has the bots, grubs or worms, loses flesh, becomes hide bound and dull.
Symptoms.
In this disease a yellowish matter is often found under the horse’s tail; he has pain, stamps and rolls, switches his tail between his legs, turns up his upper lip, and frequently looks round to his flanks, and often tries to rub his fundament against the wall, or any other place that he can.
Treatment—Remedy No. 1.
First give an active purge, and if that is not sufficient to expel them, take 2 drachms of tartar emetic, with a small quantity of tin or pewter filings, or a little ground glass, make into balls or pills, and give one every morning for two weeks; if it is necessary, the balls can be made with a little tar, which will also improve the condition of the horse.
Remedy No. 2.
Take 1 pint of common honey and give it as a drench; in two hours after give an active purge:—1 pint of molasses added to 1 pint of soft soap and a handful of salt will answer very well. Repeat the dose if it does not operate in four or five hours.
MEMBRANES OF THE NOSE.
Showing the Symptoms that mark the Different Stages of the Disease.
1st.—The pale pink hue, when the horse is in perfect health.
2d.—An increased tinge of red, and the gradual uniform painting of the membrane, indicating some excitement of the general system.
3d.—The streaked appearance when inflammation is threatening or commencing.
4th.—The intense florid red, of inflammation being acute.
5th.—The starting of the vessels from their gossamer coat, and their seeming to run bare over the membranes, when inflammation has attained its highest point.
6th.—The pale ground, with patches of vivid red, showing the half subdued but still existing fever.
7th.—The uniform color, but of a deeper red than natural, indicating the return of a healthy state of the circulation.
8th.—A paleness approaching to white, with a slight radiation of crimson, showing that there is still considerable irritability, and that mischief may be in the wind.
9th.—The pale, livid color, warning you that the disease is assuming a typhoid character.
10th.—The deep livid, announcing that the typhus is establishing, and that the vital current is stagnating.
11th.—The brown or dirty painting, intermingling with and subduing the lividness, denoting that the game is up.
12th.—These appearances will be guides to our opinions and treatment, which can never be too highly appreciated.