Nimrod's remarks on the condition of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management : reprinted from the "Sporting magazine" / by C. Tongue.
- Cecil, 1800-1884.
- Date:
- [1880?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Nimrod's remarks on the condition of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management : reprinted from the "Sporting magazine" / by C. Tongue. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![35l that appears to be flagging: in fact, they arc effectually, under such circumstances, veritable tonics.” Again—There are certain manifestly disordered states of body also in which laxatives arc preferable to purgatives in full doses. In all cases of habitual pursiness or thickness of breath from previous organic disease, in broken wind, and in permanent roaring, in evident imperfection of the digestive process, and income cutaneous affections, their judicious exhibition will often be found to be eminently serviceable.” As nothing that I can write can so satisfactorily account for the operations of properly-applied cathartics, or laxatives, as auxiliaries to the condition and the general safety of horses’ health, I shall conclude this part of my subject by saying, that I never used any kind of oils as laxatives to promote con- dition ; but have found great benefit in two drachms of Bar- badoes aloes, witli one drachm of ginger, made into a very small ball, and given (generally) two mornings in succession. All the experiments Mr. W. Percivall has made on oils, as cathartics in horses, have proved them uncertain, if not dan- gerous, in their operation. RING BONE. It has three times happened to me to have horses lame without being able to ascertain the cause, and on sending them to veterinary surgeons for examination, the answer has two or three times been—‘‘incipient ring-bone.” No ring-bone, however, appeared. Horses with short unyielding pasterns, that have been worked on hard roads when young, arc most subject to this disease—and a most formidable one it is : for nothing but the red-hot iron has any chance to contend with it, and even that will not always do*. A very small excrescence at the junc- * Try the following Ointment:— Biiiiodiclc of Mercury . . 1 ilraclmi. hard 10 clracluns. Mix. A small portion to be rubbed on the part daily till a thick scurf has formed. C)mit the a])plication till after the sciu’f has come olf, when it may be repeated two or three times,—Ed,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28130479_0369.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
