Hippopathology : a systematic treatise on the disorders and lamenesses of the horse : with their modern and most approved methods of cure : embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools; the opinions of Professor Coleman, Director Girard, Hurtrel d'Arboval, and other British and foreign veterinarians : with illustrative woodcuts / by William Percivall.

  • Percivall, William, 1792-1854.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Hippopathology : a systematic treatise on the disorders and lamenesses of the horse : with their modern and most approved methods of cure : embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools; the opinions of Professor Coleman, Director Girard, Hurtrel d'Arboval, and other British and foreign veterinarians : with illustrative woodcuts / by William Percivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The decline of the inflammation rendering the continuance of the poultice unnecessary, I commence sprinkling the heels with astrin- gent powder, using it once or twice a-day, accordingly as it may require renewing, and taking special care all the while that the animal gets his walking exercise regularly twice a-day. It is also proper, now that the physic is worked off, that a diuretic ball should be given daily, or every other day, according as there appears much or little disposition in the legs to tumefy. But as soon as I find the greasy issue arrested, and the skin becoming dry and hard, I substitute an astringent ointment for the powder; which I conceive corrects any disposition there may be in the heel to crack, by furnishing the skin with a sort of ar- tificial lubrication. In cases where the local inflammation shews a tendency to violence, and it is combined with much tumefaction of the legs, abstract four or five quarts of blood, and give stronger physic; and pursue for a longer period the poulticing: after which, pro- secute the astringent treatment, increasing the strength of your application as you proceed. In cases become chronic from their duration, and when all acute inflammation has passed away and left a profuse greasy and purulent issue, which in its effluxion is rotting the horn of the foot, and by its offensive foetor polluting even the very at- mosphere of the stable, I have known the speediest cures per- formed as follows :—The heels to be trimmed as closely as pos- sible, and afterwards thoroughly cleansed with warm water and sponge, and then rubbed dry. A pledget of tow, with two long ends,of this shape, to be prepared ; upon the broad or middle part of which with