A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates.

  • White, James, -1825
Date:
1832
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Credit: A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [13] in reducing it to a soft mass: but digestion is far from being perfect in the stomach of the horse, and appears to be comple- ted in the large intestines, cacum and colon. This contrivance seems absolutely necessary in the horse, when we consider the wonderful speed and exertion of which he is capable, and for which nature appears to have designed him. The ox, the sheep, and other ruminant animals, have four large stomachs, the small- est of which, even in the sheep, is as large as that of the horse. These animals take in a large quantity of food at once, and di- gest it at their leisure, from which they feel no inconvenience: but the horse, even in a state of nature, is differently employed. Rapidity of motion and strength are necessary to his preserva- tion ; and in his domesticated state it is more particularly re- quired. Hence, he is formed with a small stomach, which requires frequent supplies, and is no impediment to his exertions. From this will appear the absurdity of keeping a horse a consi- derable time without food or water, and then suffering him to take in a large quantity: incurable and even fatal diseases have arisen from this management. In the ox and sheep, digestion is completed in the fourth stomach. The three first stomachs are connected with each other, and with a groove-like continuation of the oesophagus. The groove is then continued to, and terminates in the fourth stomach: the thick prominent lips which form the edges of this groove ad- mit of being drawn together so as to form a complete canal. The two first stomachs are connected with each other, and with a groove-like continuation of the oesophagus. This groove termi- nates in the third stomach: the thick prominent lips which form the margin of this groove, admit of being drawn together, so as to form a complete canal, which then constitues a direct continuation of the oesophagus into the third stomach. The grass or food after a slight mastication, is taken into the first stomach, or paunch, from whence it passes in small portions into the second stomach, to undergo a further maceration: it is then returned through the oesophagus into the mouth to be ruminated. When the ruminated food is swallowed, the groove is shut, so that it passes directly into the third stomach, where it is further prepared for digestion, and then passes into the fourth stomach, in which the process of digestion is completed. The horse, in a state of nature, is almost constantly feeding- and the food which he takes in, ia retained but a short time in the stomach j digestion seems to be going on nearly through the whole of the intestines, and appears to be chiefly effected m the •scum, or blind gut, which in the horse, is remarkably large and capacious. From these curious contrivances, the horse's stomach is never so loaded with food as to hinder the action of B