Ailments of Horses (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Dry food and severe straining act as excitants towards its production. It may become strangulated, and then it assumes a blackish appearance.

Treatment. - Cleanse the part, then try and return it, subsequently smearing with gallic acid ointment. Soft food must be the order.

N. B. - The protrusion must not be mistaken for a polypoid (stalked) tumour.

Anthrax. - This is a germ disease, being caused by an organism circulating in the blood.

The germ is known as the Anthrax Bacterium (pl. Bacteria). It is extremely minute in size, requiring high powers of the microscope for the demonstration of the same.

In shape it is like, that of a short rod, with square or notched ends.

Its methods of multiplication are by the rod breaking across (transverse fission), or else by forming spores in the interior of the chain-like length. The latter usually happens outside the body. These organisms give rise to deadly excretions, which cause, as a rule, the rapid death of their host.

In the horse anthrax is not at all common in this country, but either the same, or another disease very closely allied to it, is common at the Cape, where, it bears the name "Cape Horse Sickness."

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