Symptoms.—Tears; closed eyelid; the ball of the eye becomes entirely or partially white.
Treatment.—Remove any foreign body; fasten a cloth across the forehead; moisten it with a decoction of poppy-heads to which some tincture of arnica has been added. If a small abscess should appear on the surface of the eye, open it, and bathe with chloride of zinc lotion. Should inflammation be excessive, puncture eye vein, and place some favorite food on the ground.
SITFAST.
Causes.—Ill health; badly-fitting saddle; too energetic a rider; loose girths; ruck in the saddle-cloth.
Symptom.—Like a corn on the human foot, but the hard, bare patch is surrounded by a circle of ulceration.
Treatment.—The knife should remove the thickened skin. Chloride of zinc, one grain; water, one ounce, to the wound. Attend to the bowels. Feed liberally; exercise well; and give, night and morning, liquor arsenicalis, half an ounce; tincture of muriate of iron, three-quarters of an ounce; water, one pint. Mix, and give.
SORE THROAT.
Causes.—In colts, change from freedom to work, from the field to the stable, is the cause. Sore throat, however, may be caused by close stables, or be an indication of some greater disease.
Symptoms.—Perpetual deglutition of saliva; want of appetite; inability to swallow a draught of liquid—the fluid returning partly by the nostrils, and each gulp being accompanied with an audible effort.