LAMPAS. The horse is subject to various, local inflammations in and around the mouth, which prevents the proper chewing of the food, causing working of the jaws, ejection of the food, and often drooling of saliva from the mouth. Persons who do not apprehend the real cause apply to the nearest horse doctor (?) who, in his ignorance, burns the lampas out. Lampas is an active inflammation of the fleshy bars of the roof of the mouth, not unusual in young horses while shedding their teeth. Some times they swell so much as to project beyond the nippers, and are so tender that hard food is refused. Scarifying the bars with a sharp lan cet, so they will bleed slightly, is the proper remedy. If this does not suffice, touch the inflamed parts with a stick of lunar caustic, or swab them with a strong solution of the same every day until they disappear, or the inflam mation is reduced. The glands of the lower jaw sometimes encroach on the cavity of the mouth, through enlargement. The glands should be painted with iodine until the swelling disap pears. This form of swelling is called Vives.
Paps is a name given to swellings caused by obstructions of the salivary glands. Touching with a pencil of nitrate of silver once a day, until it disappears, is the remedy. In cutting teeth, the gums of young horses are swollen, as in the case of infants. Cutting down onto the teeth with a sharp knife will give relief. Old horses are often supposed to have lampas, when the trouble is either decayed teeth, or from the increasing spaces between becoming filled with closely impacted food, so much sometimes that inflammation and even excoriation will ensue, causing foul breath. In fact, if the horse have a foul breath, the first thing to be looked for is decayed teeth, or else food lodged between. If decayed teeth are found extract them, if impacted food be found remove it and wash the parts with a solution of chloride of lime, in the proportion of one ounce of chloride of lime to a pint of water.