A description of the gripes of horses, and of a better mode of treating it ; also human cholera explained ; shewing its identity with the above, and a more successful manner of treating it ; its history, etc / [Bracy Clark].

  • Bracy Clark
Date:
1837
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Credit: A description of the gripes of horses, and of a better mode of treating it ; also human cholera explained ; shewing its identity with the above, and a more successful manner of treating it ; its history, etc / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great deal of ill digested and ill masticated food of beans, oats, and ill chewed hay, mixed with a bloody water, or red serum, which had probably been thrown out from the distended arteries and vessels wdiich at length were ruptured by the inflammatory action. The small intestines were not much affected; here and there a patch of inflamed surface. The stomach was whiter I thought than usual, and freer from blood ; probably the blood had been drawn away from this part to the inflamed portion of the intestines, or had been in a state of spasm. Whether in this case the disorder was brought on from voracious feeding, and not sufficiently grinding his food, or in consequence of exposure to cold from open doors or windows, or both causes combined, we are not assured.' The second case I select occurred in a stallion, taken ill at Islington, while in the dray. He was brought home about three o’clock in the afternoon : I was soon after sent for. Here the symptoms were the most violent, and the pain and inflammation went on in the most rapid way I had ever yet seen. A ball with opium was immediately administered : his sides were rubbed with hot cloths, wrung out of hot water, and we endeavoured to give him a clyster, but in vain, his pain and rolling about afforded but few opportunities to introduce the pipe, and then the clyster was rejected without passing a foot’s length into the gut, a contracted state of the intestines appeared in the most effectual manner to close all entrance or exit to the intestines. After warm ale and spices, and other things of this sort had been given him, he died in great agony about nine o’clock. We immediately opened him, and found the colon and ccecurn highly inflamed, and an immense quantity of ill chewed, undigested food within, and a large quantity of greenish red water, and some air. Here the cause evidently appeared to be indigestion ; and from the horse-keeper I understood he was a very voracious feeder, and had been several times seized in this way before, but not so violently. July 27th, 1800, I was sent for to a case of gripes at the same brewhouse, a brown dray horse; he was not so cruelly agonized as in the preceding cases; he stood up much, sometimes lay down, and rolled about but little. I gave him a ball, containing two drams of spirits of turpentine ; I expected it would have induced staleing, but during an hour that I stood by him it did not operate in this way. I ordered him to be well rubbed with straw, and we took a broom stale, and two men rubbed him under the abdomen with con-
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