Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses ... with incidental observations.

  • William Moorcroft
Date:
1800
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Credit: Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses ... with incidental observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    to the hoop, it hitched on a brafs knob, and conflantly flipped off. On the moft trifling exercife the Rupture defcended ; half my time was confumed in reducing it, and often in great pain. Above twenty times I have felt all the agonies of a ftridture, particularly about three years ago in Dublin, and expend- ed my death for two days, preferring that, to the operation of cutting. Naufea, fweats, fhiverings, cramps in the legs, enfued — death was my only profpeCt; when fuddenly and unexpectedly, poflibly from the fomentations ufed by my furgeon, the Rupture became reducible, and as far as I am able to form an opinion, a novel cafe happily for me, occurred. The Rupture was of that fpecics, called hernia congenita ; and the inflammation has, as far as I can judge, detached the omentum from the teftis. The omentum is now reducible ; and fince the improvements, the Rupture never de- fcends into the fac, except when the trufs is removed, and then it comes down to a great fize. So powerful are the combined effects • B 2 of
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