Swelling of the Teats
Sometimes from cold or injury, the teats in mares are subject to inflammatory swelling. A few doses, ten drops each, of A. A., for Fever, will relieve, and if the parts seem quite tender, bathe them with Humphreys’ Marvel Witch Hazel or apply the Veterinary Oil.
Ringworm
Ringworm is a disease caused by a vegetable parasite, or fungus, which lives on hair follicles and the hair itself.
Symptoms.—It makes its appearance most frequently on the seat of the saddle, on the croup or flanks and sometimes on the head. The spots range in size from a dime to a half dollar and usually form a fairly regular circle. The hair has fallen out or is broken off and there is a scaling of the skin inside the circle. The surrounding hair can easily be pulled out. Itching is generally absent.
Treatment.—Same as for mange. (See Mange page [23]).
Lice
Horses taken up from a straw yard, with long, shaggy coats, in poor condition, are sometimes found infested with lice.
Cause.—Contagion.
Symptoms.—The animal is seen continually biting his sides and quarters, rubs himself against walls and posts, or anything within his reach, denuding the skin of hair in patches and making it bleed. On close examination we have no difficulty in discovering the lice in bare patches.