VETERINARY QUERIES.
[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Qurgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.] Subscriber, Duntroon, writes:—(l) What is the best cure for grease in a horse? (2) I have a foal about a mon'th old that has a hard lumtp on the inside of both forelegs. They are about the size of a bird's egg. What should I do? Answer: (1) Grease on horse's leg. Wash the leg well with carbolic soft soap and warm water. When dry apply a little white lotion—loz each of acetate of lead and loz of sulphate of zinc to a pint of water, mixed together, and painted on with a brush. This dressing may be applied every second day. A do&o of medicine, euch as a five or six drachm aloes ball, might be beneficial A few bran mashes to be given before administering the bolus. (2) As your foal is young, it would be inadvisable to apply any surgical or medicinal treatment. The lumps you mentioned may disappear as the animal grows older, say, for two years. I hug allowing Nature to finish its own work.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3021, 7 February 1912, Page 51
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