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Show HOW TO TREAT STRINGHALT Medical Treatment Does Not Givo Benefit, But Good Results Follow Careful Feeding and Tonics. (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) Stringhalt, a spasmodic contraction of the voluntary muscles of the leg, ' ut.ually occurs in animals of a highly nervous disposition. One of the most frequent forms of stringhalt is a jerking jerk-ing up of the hind leg as the horse travels, in many cases only when the Vrse first starts. This is often most severe in cold weather and gradually increases as the animal grows older, but it does not seem to cause any suffering nor interfere in-terfere with the general health of the animal. In most cases of chorea (stringhalt) medical treatment does not give benefit, ben-efit, but good results follow careful feeding and tonics. The food should be nutritious, easily digested, of good variety and abundant. A mixture of oats, oil meal and bran is good. Three times a week give the following: Salt, four ounces; sulphur, sul-phur, two ounces; hard wood ashes, two ounces a tablespoonful In the feed. Also give Fowler's solution of arsenic, beginning with one-half ounce doses in the feed once daily, and gradually grad-ually increasing by one-fourth ounce at a time until one ounce is given at a dose in the morning and at night. This should be given for two weeks, then withheld two weeks and then re-peated. |