horse is unable to lie down, which heightens the swelling and irritability of the disease.

Treatment-When swelled legs first appear, great relief will arise, and consequent danger removed, by hand-rubbing the legs for half an hour or an hour morning and evening, and afterwards applying a bandage, and occasionally giving a dose of physic. In the spring and fall, a diuretic mixed with a cordial will be of service, this will circulate the blood and invigorate the frame, especially during the period the horse is taking on a new coat. If the animal has suffered from starvation, make use of a mild diuretic and tonic. But in most other cases, regular exercise and the bandage are the best medicines. If necessity has compelled the horse to be left in the stable some days, and he is subject to swelled legs, a mild dose of physic will be serviceable; but the constant and indiscriminate use of diuretics is very much to be reprehended.

When the symptoms of Grease first appears, wash the heels with soap and water, and having removed all the scurf you possibly can, dry the part, and rub in the following ointment :

In case where cracks are just beginning to show themselves

mixed, will serve as a good solution in drying them up. When the case has not been discovered early, and the discharge has commenced, a poultice of boiled bran and linseed, powdered, must be used, and a diuretic given; but when the matter has become offensive,

a little charcoal must be added to the above poultice. Some persons make use of a carrot-poultice, and indeed speak very much in favour of its efficacy; it deserves a trial.

As inflammation and the pain and soreness decreases, wash with

A diuretic every second or third day may be used, but a mild purge will be the best :

made into a ball with syrup or treacle, and given with the usual preparation of bran mashes.

If the disease is obstinate, the following ointment may be tried:

It is essentially necessary to keep a horse as clean as possible, and exercise him on clean and dry ground; during the progress of the disease a moderate allowance of corn may be given, especially when debility exists; green meat and carrots are very serviceable. When thoroughly cured, a run at grass is recommended. If the horse's legs are usually disposed to swell, a bandage should be used for some time after the cure has been effected, indeed, in such cases, it is often very necessary, and will often serve as a preventative.

Sometimes cracks will show in the heel, and the usual swelling and discharge of matter may not exist; some use then the following ointment :

This is to be put in a pot of boiling water and left till

it melts, when

Acetated Litharge

must be stirred into the mixture.

1 ounces,

This is applied morning and evening, and must be well rubbed in.

In severe cases, the mel ægyptiacum is used by some, as is also a poultice composed of oatmeal and beergrounds.

When the horse has been lame during the progress of the disease, the exercise should be very gentle at first, and as a cure advances by degrees a trot may be ventured on. But all may rely upon the opinion of practitioners, that the origin of the disease is bad stable-management.

DISEASES OF THE EYE

ARE several; but the most common is inflammation of the conjunctiva, or membrane which lines the eyelids, covering the cornea and haw of the eye.

When the attack is but slight, a cooling application" will often remove it. The following embrocation is

Either of these may possibly be effective; at the same time administering a mild purge :

Barbadoes Aloes

5 drachms, after the usual preparation of bran-mash.

Regard must, however, be paid to the symptoms and general appearance of the eye: if the disease proceeds from a blow, or is produced by any foreign body, try

Sulphate of Zinc
Spring Water

1 ounce.

1 pints.

This will remove the inflammation; but if it still lingers, and the horse shows great reluctance to stand in the light, it is to be feared that the most destructive of all diseases to which the eye is subjected is present. This is known, as the

SPECIFIC OPTHALMIA;

Or, as it was formerly called, Moon-blindness: it ge

nerally comes on during the night, and does not attack horses that have been free from it when between four and six years old; but having had it during that period, they are liable at all ages afterwards to be affected. At first, the cornea becomes clouded, and the aqueous humour loses its transparency; the iris in many cases is discoloured, and the inflammation is by no means stationary, but first attacks one eye, then the other; the whole surface soon assumes a bloody appearance, the pupil contracts, and finally total blindness is the result. Sometimes one eye is lost, and sometimes both.

The disease at all times is most uncertain; for several weeks all inflammation will disappear, and then it will as suddenly return

Causes. It is usually attributed to a baneful atmosphere, the neglect of cleaning and purifying properly the stables, and at the same time keeping them too close and void of proper ventilation; another cause is keeping the stall too dark, the horse becomes dazzled, and it is some time before he obtains his vision when brought from a dark stable into the light. Purging will also bring it on: and it must here be noticed, that once attacked, the horse propagates it; if perfect in every other respect, blindness, in consequence of Specific Opthalmia, will give the young weak eyes, which may eventually turn to total obstruction of light. fact well known, but not been properly heeded.

This is a

Treatment.-According to the strength of the animal, bleeding will relieve this disease, but by no means cure it. Try any of the lotions named before, or apply poultices, with a small quantity of either Goulard's extract or opium mixed in them: bleeding from the