Twelve lectures on the form and action of the horse: to which are appended, some experimental inquiries into the effects of medicine on horses / [William Percivall].

  • Percivall, William, 1792-1854.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Twelve lectures on the form and action of the horse: to which are appended, some experimental inquiries into the effects of medicine on horses / [William Percivall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this case I resolved to try the medicine zn solution. I there- fore ordered the horse to be kept short of drink, and to have mixed in his pailful of water a fluid-ounce of the LIguoR Baril CHLO- RIDI, and this to be done morning and evening, keeping him with- out water at mid-day. 23d, QAth, 25th, 26th.—He drinks his water—has had 4iss of the solution mixed with it, morning and evening. 27th, Wh, With, 30th, 3lst, April Ist, 2Wd.—Has drunk 31] morning and evening in his water, and has been regularly ex- ercised. There appears less discharge from the nose, and of a better character. The hind limbs are less swollen. April 3d.—He purges, and has failed in his appetite. The ulcers have certainly a cleaner aspect, and the submaxillary glands have in some measure diminished. Ath, 5th, 6th, Tth, 8th.—Continue medicine as before. 9th.—Purges again, and very much off his feed. His farcy has undergone amendment: but, in respect to the nasal affection, that seems one day better, another day worse. 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th.—Recovered his appetite, and has con- tinued his medicine. 15th.—This morning the groom had exercised him as usual, and on his return had tied him up in his box. Five minutes after- wards, he found the patient had in his absence dropped down dead. Post-mortem.—The lungs were sound—the right lobes full of blood, from lying upon that side—the vascular lining of the stomach certainly redder than usual, and yet presenting nothing amounting to inflammation produced by poisoning—the intestines and other viscera healthy—the membrane covering the septum nasi and turbinated bones having the worm-eaten aspect denoting chronic ulceration. Both frontal sinuses contained white purulent- like matter, but presented no ulceration. The fatal operation of the medicine appears to have been on the nervous system. In substance it affected the alimentary mucous membrane differently from what it did in solution. In the latter form it dangerously insinuated itself into the system.
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