The New-England farrier; or a compendium of farriery, in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of; with medical and surgical observations thereon... / By Paul Jewett.

  • Jewett, Paul
Date:
1822
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Credit: The New-England farrier; or a compendium of farriery, in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of; with medical and surgical observations thereon... / By Paul Jewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in my practice. The almost only cause,, is taking cold after hard labour andl sweating. The excretions being sud- denly diminished, brings on these spas- modic and convulsive symptoms.Upon the least motion, every nerve seems, contracted, to overthrow its antagonist, and as it were to dismember its un- governable body.—The.eyes are con- torted in I heir sockets, and they are blind except by accident, and nothing • but the white appears. The method I have found of uncom- mon efficacy, is this. Immediately take a pound and a half of blood from the jugular ; then place your horse in a warm stable, and pre])are to sv eat him : Take a large pot, and fill it with May- weed and tansy ; when boiled place it under the horse’s belly, and cover him with a l:u ge coverlet, to keep the steam of the bath confined to his body. A little previous to the bath,give him fifteen or eighteen grains of opium in half a pint of wine. Now take special care that the cold be not repeated ; let him wear his covering a day or two, and carry
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