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Treatment.—­Remove the shoe, and soak the feet in warm water for six or eight hours and repeat in two or three days.  Also apply Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment at night all over the bottom of the foot and to all parts of the frog and at top of hoof joining the hair, and cover the entire wall of the foot.  The horse should stand on a deep, soft bed.  Cover with blankets.  Feed bran mashes, vegetables and hay; no grain.  Use wide-webbed shoes two weeks after recovery.

Heaves

The symptoms of this disease are chronic, spasmodic cough and simultaneous passage of gas from the rectum; double bellowslike action of the abdominal muscles in breathing; harsh staring coat; hide-bound skin; weakness, and ill-health in general.  Over-burdening of the stomach with coarse, bulky, dusty, or woody hay or other roughage, and working the horse immediately after such a meal induces heaves.  The horse that has inherited a gluttonous appetite is especially subject to the disease.  Probably the most effective remedy for this disease is Pratts Heave Remedy.  In addition to using the Remedy as directed, we would suggest wetting all food with lime water, feeding wet oat straw in winter and grass in summer in preference to hay; allowing double the customary rest period after meals and keeping the bowels freely open by feeding bran mashes containing raw linseed oil or flaxseed meal.

Itch

This is the name given to mange, eczema and other skin diseases.  It is usually prevalent in summer and from a small beginning on an animal, will rapidly spread all over the body.

Treatment.—­Wash the parts thoroughly with a solution of one part of Pratts Disinfectant to 20 parts water.  Let it dry and then apply Pratts Healing Ointment or Healing Powder two or three times a day.

Lice

Sprinkle Pratts Disinfectant on an old blanket and tie it around the animal for two or three hours.  This will quickly kill all vermin.  Spray lightly upon the legs and such places that the blanket will not cover.  Then spray thoroughly the stable and all poultry houses near with the Disinfectant, according to directions.  Give Pratts Animal Regulator to build up the animals that have been affected.

Puncture and Wounds in the Foot

In all cases, the opening or puncture in the hoof must be made larger, so as to give free vent for the matter which is sure to form.  If this is not done, quittor will follow.  Then dress with Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment.

While working the horse, a pledget of tow, covered with Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment, may be placed in and over the puncture and confined; but it must not be allowed to remain after the horse returns to the stable.  Soak the feet for eight or ten hours a day for two or three days in a 5% solution of Pratts Disinfectant and apply the Ointment.  Horse will not have proud flesh when this remedy is used.