The farmer's guide, or A treatise on the management of breeding-mares and cows : with a selection of proved prescriptions, for the diseases of horses and black cattle / by James Webb.
- Webb, Jim, 1943-2024
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The farmer's guide, or A treatise on the management of breeding-mares and cows : with a selection of proved prescriptions, for the diseases of horses and black cattle / by James Webb. 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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![Costiveness often succeeds dysentery, which may be mitigated by giving some lin- seed amongst his corn, or a little malt mash, once or twice a day, till the stomach and bowels come to their proper tone of digestion. INFLAMMATION. I will now make a few general remarks on internal Inflammation, which may probably convey more useful information-to the'greater ] part of my readers—than were I to give a long I description of each disease in regular suc- cession. There are few diseases—if any— which the horse is liable too, that do not either consist in Inflammation, or arise from it. And the greater importance the organ has in its functions in the animal system, the more dangerous isthe disease when those parts are affected; such as an Inflammation of the Stomach, —Bowels,—Lungs,—Liver, Kidnies, &c. In examination of horses that die of those diseases, it is difficult to ascertain in what part of the system, the inflammation first ori- ginates ; for instance, in Pleurisy, and In-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21484090_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
