THE VETERINARIAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 751, 23 July 1886, Page 15

THE VETERINARIAN.

GUESTION AND ANSWER. A correspondent writes to the .Agricultura Gazette as follows : ‘ I have a young half-bred 16 hands mare, accustomed to steady work on farm. Last summer she was found in the pasture, where aha had been turned for the day, bleeding heavily from the nose. Her head was tied up to the rack, and her nose plugged ; the bleeding stopped. Last week the bleeding came on suddenly again, and over two gallons of blood was lost. The farrier informs me that it will eventually prove fatal, and is from the bursting of a blood vessel in the head. Gan your correspondents advise me of any treatment that is likely to produce a good result. Perhaps I should have said that, in all other effects but the bleeding, the mare appears to be perfectly sound and well. The Editor replies :— ‘ You have been rightly informed that the bleeding from your mare’s nose is the result of a bloodvessel bursting ; and, as this vessel is in all probability permanently diseased, these attacks of bleeding may be expected to recur at intervals as long as the mare lives, but it will, sooner or later, cause her death. However, she muy be useful for years if managed carefully ; and I should recommend that she be be never allowed to feed off the ground, but always have her food In a marger of moderate height; also that she be kept at regular, fairly easy work, taking care that the collar is not too small for her. She should not be allowed too much corn, because, if fat, the bleeding will be likely to occur more frequently. There are no medicinal agents that would prevent this haemorrhage, but, when it does come on, two drams of dilute sulphuric acid might be given in her drinking water twice or thrice daily with advantage.’ With reference to the above, the mare was subsequently found dead in the stable, having literally bled to death.