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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    [19] liniment or ointment. Should the wound appear indisposed to heal when this treatment has been pursued for a short time, discharging a thin offensive matter, and wanting that red ap- pearance by which the healing process is indicated, the deter- gent lotion will soon remove these unfavorable appearances; the discharge will become whiter and thicker, and red granulations of new flesh will sprout up. Should these granulations, how- ever, become luxuriant, constituting what is commonly termed proud flesh, they are to be kept down by means of the caustic powder. It sometimes happens, that when a part is inflamed and swoln, instead of going on to suppuration, it degenerates into a hard and almost insensible tumour: this depends on the inflammation having terminated in effusion ofcoagulable lymph,' and is to be removed by stimulating embrocations or blisters. When inflammation runs very high, as is sometimes the case in violent bruises, or deep and extensive wounds of the lacera- ted kind, it may terminate in gangrene or mortification, which is generally attended with danger: in this case, the matter dis- charged, instead of being white and thick, consists of a dark co- lored fluid, ofa peluliar offensive smell; the constitution is gen- erally affected, the pulse becoming quick, weak, and sometimes irregular; the appetite goes off; and there is a great degree of debility.* When any of the internal parts are inflamed, a fever is gen- erally produced, the violence of which will depend upon the im- portance of the inflamed organ, as well as upon the extent and degree of the inflammation; some of the internal parts being more essential to life than others, and, when inflamed, occasion- ing of course greater derangement in the system. The only favorable termination, to which internal inflammation can be brought, is resolution; and the most vigorous measures should be adopted in order to effect it. The most important remedy in these cases is copious bleeding, and the earlier it is employ- ed the more effectual will it prove; the next remedy is external inflammation, artificially excited by means of rowels and blis- ters. The fever powder, and occasional clysters, are of consid- erable service. CHAPTER III. Fever. THE fevers of horses bear very little analogy to those of the * S«o Lacerated and Contused TVounds, Appendix.