Causes.—Filth and debility.
Treatment.—Rub the skin with some cheap oil or grease. Wash, and then look for other diseases, as hide-bound, mange, etc.
LAMINITIS, (SUBACUTE.)
Causes.—Age; long standing in the stable; over-work, and stinted diet.
Symptoms.—First noticed by the manner of going upon the heels of the fore feet.
Treatment.—Get into slings. Remove the shoes. Do not bleed. If costiveness is present open the bowels with green-meat, but do not purge. Give a quart of stout, night and morning. Allow two drinks per day, each consisting of one ounce of sulphuric ether and half a pint of water; half-drachm doses of belladonna, to allay pain; sound oats and old beans, both crushed, for food; water to be whitened; no hay. No limit to this food, but five feeds to be given if the horse will eat so much.
LUXATION OF THE PATELLA.
Cause.—Bad food and constitutional weakness.
Symptoms.—The horse stops short, and has one of the hind legs extended backward. A swelling upon the outer side. The pastern is flexed, the head raised, and the animal in great pain. In colts it will sometimes appear on the slightest cause.