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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    [38] laxative ball. By these means inflammation arising from ex- ternal injury, may generally be cured in a short time. The eyes often become inflamed in consequence of cold and fevers, in which cases the causes is to be chiefly attended to: when this is removed, the inflammation usually ceases. The most common cause of this complaint is high feeding, without a due proportion of exercise. These cases require great care and attention, for unless proper remedies are employed on the first attack, the disease, though i't appears to go off, will be frequently returning, and in all probability, eventually produce blindness. The first remedy to be employed on this occasion, is bleeding; and the quantity of blood that is drawn, should be proportionate to the violence of the inflammation, and the con- dition of the animal. Should the vessels on the white part of the eye and inner part of the eye-lids appear to be distented with blood, great advantage will be derived from scarifying the lat- ter with a lancet. A laxative ball is to be given, and the bowels afterward kept in a lax state by means of bran mashes. I have found a. seton, placed immediately under the eye, a very useful remedy; but unless the operation is nicely performed, it fre- quently leaves an unpleasant mark behind, which would lead a person experienced in horses, to suspect that the eye had been diseased, and might therefore diminish the value of the horse. A shade, so adapted as to preserve the eye from the irritation of dust and light, will be found useful. This kind of inflam- mation generally comes on rather suddenly, sometimes attacking only one eye, at others, both are affected. As there is no ap- parent cause for this sudden attack of inflammation, the groom very commonly attributes it to seeds or dust having fallen from the rack into the eye, and very little attention is paid to it.— Notwithstanding this neglect, the disease frequently goes off, and in some cases, its disappearance is nearly as sudden as its attack: Lu a short time, however, it again appears as unexpect- edly as at first, and again perhaps goes off. In this uncertain way it may continue a considerable time, the eyes sometimes appearing transparent, and free from inflammation; at others, watery, inflamed, and opaque on the surface: at length the infer- nal parts of the eye are affected, and a cataract produced. It has been supposed, that the diseases of a horse's eye are frequently hereditary, or dependent on some natural defect in the structure. I do not know how far this opinion may be true, but never having seen a case which seemed to corroborate it, I am not inclined to give it much credit. It is not very improba- ble, however, that the eyes of some horses may be naturally weak, and more liable to become inflamed when exposed to the exciting causes of inflammation, than such as are originally en-