VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 27

VETERINARY QUERIES.

rAniwered by a *uly qualified Veterinary Surgeon.Queriotmuit be reoelved by Momdat night to enrore reply to the tuooeeding luuo.l Subscriber.—This is often seen on horses that are overfed on stimulating food, grain, &Oy and kept in close and unwholesome stables. Treatment if the skin is unbroken : Bathe every night after taking off the harness with a weak solution of chloride of sodium; but if there are woundß, instead of that use any astringent lotion, and have the collar properly stuffed and filled by a saddler. Farmer.—The causes of your horse's ailment may be from a weak circulation, as a diseased heart, liver, kidneys, with swelled legs or a lymphatic constitution, or leaving them wet and muddy when put in the stall, or irritant fumes from accumulated dung and urine, or a current of cold air striking on the heels, or from any of the constitutional causes of other skin diseases, and to these may be added eruptions associated with vegetable parasites. Treatment: The main point is to find out the cause and apply the appropriate remedies. If from deranged function ' of the internal organs, treat as for that disease, and remove all external causes in mild cases without eruptions or discharge. Cloths saturated in a weak solution of plurabi acetates may be useful to allay the irritation.