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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    [20] human body, and require a different treatment. Writers on farriery have described a great variety of fevers, but their ob- servations appear to have been drawn from the works of medical authors, and their reasoning seems entirely analogical. I can distinguish only two kinds of fever, the one, an idiopathic or original disease, and therefore properly termed simple; the oth- er dependent on internal inflammation, and very justly denomi- nated symptomatic fever. For example, if the lungs, bowels or stomach were inflamed, the whole system would be thrown in- to disorder, and a symtomatic fever produced; but if a collapse of the perspiring vessels happen to take place, the blood will ac- cumulate in the interior parts of the body; and though inflam- mation is not produced by it, the unequal distribution of the blood alone will occasion that derangement in the system which constitutes the simple fever.* The simple fever does not oc- cur so frequently as the symptomatic, nor is it by any means so formidable in its appearance; yet it is necessary to give it the earliest attention, for unless nature receives timely assistance, she will be sometimes unable to get rid of (he load which op- presses her; and the blood will accumulate in the interior part of the body, until inflammation in some of the visera is produc- ed and a dangerous disease established. The following are symptoms of simple fever-.—shivering, succeeded by loss of ap- petite, dejected appearance, quick pulse, hot mouth, and some- degree of debility; the horse is generally costive, and voids his urine with difficulty. The disease is often accompanied with quickness of breathing, and in a few cases with pain in the bow- els, or symptoms of cholic. As soon as a horse is attacked by this disease, let him be bled freely; and if costiveness be one of the symptoms, give a pint of castor oil, or the oil of olives; and let a clyster of warm wa- ter-gruel be injectededj After the operation of the laxative, the fever powder is to be given once in twelve hou;s, and con-' tinued until its diuretic effect becomes considerable. Warm water and mashes are to be frequently offered in small quanti- * Fever is often preceded, or rattier commences with shivering, from which circamstance it seems reasonable to infer, that an interruption of the functions of the skin is either a cause of fever, or materially connected wim t I have lately found the following drink a very useful laxative oa thwa occasions:— Take of Barbadocs aloes powdered, -------...3 ,jrain, Prepared kali, ! dram 'and 1 Castor oil, - 4 oz. tu 6 w. Simple mint water and pure water, of each, ------ 4 01. BIX FOK ONI. DOSB.