The simple ailments of horses : their nature and treatment / by W.F.

  • Fearnley, William.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The simple ailments of horses : their nature and treatment / by W.F. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scrapers are to be instantly used, and large, hot, dry flannels applied to dry the skin quickly, and then well-warmed, dry, woollen rugs and bandages put on. A great sense of comfort follows, and this is the time when milk food, etc., is relished. The temperature of the body is to be watched with a ther- mometer after this cold douching, and the same process re- applied when the temperature has got to the height it was before. A thorough cold douche may remove the high tempera- ture once for all, or for a time varying from two to eight hours. Usually the douche will be needed three times in twenty-four hours; but during even the longest and most severe fevers the temperature will seldom attempt to rise above 105° more than a couple of days or so. Note.—If cold douching has been continued a little too long, and the pulse is feeble and the lips are blue, a glass of hot brandy and water as a drench will be required. Whilst the douching is being conducted, some one should be told off to prepare a few pints of iced milk or iced milk and egg, to be taken by the horse immediately after the douche, which he will drink with zest. (2) To keep open the great emunctories of the body. —The bowels, being the chief of the four, must receive our first attention, also our constant attention throughout. A well selected cathartic should be chosen, and when the bowels have been freely opened simple salines should be constantly given, such as solution of acetate of ammonia, citrate of potash, nitre- whey (prepared by boiling an ounce of powdered nitre in half a gallon of milk and straining). Bran, hay, or barley tea, or water with lemon-juice (see Nursing, at the end of the volume) are all useful as drinks; all to be given cold, or even iced. (3) To support the nervous and circulatory systems. —These systems are apt to fail during a fever, and therefore we must give highly nourishing nutriment in a liquid form,
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