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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    [39] dued with a proper degree of strength: but it appears to mr that where this weakness or aptitude to disease exists, it is more frequently the effect of some injury which this lender and deli- cate organ has sustained, than a defect of nature. When the eye becomes inflamed, it is necessary to inquire into the catu:e of the inflammation: if it arrises from any mechanical injury, and be not very considerable, there is a brobabilily of its being speedily removed, by means of the remidies I have pointed ou!; but if the inflammation have arisen without any apparent cause, depending perhaps upon the plethora, or redundancy of blood in the system, there will be some chance of a radical cine, pro- vided the proper remidies are employed sufficiently early. If these be neglected at the commencement of the disease, though the inflammation after some time appears to go off, and the eye, to a superficial observer, seems to have recovered, yet the dis- ease frequently returns, and ultimately occasions blindness. Should the disease have occurred before, and particularly if the former attack were violent, there is still less chance of its being removed, and all our remedies will probably prove ineffectual. In this case the alterative No. 3, (see index.) may be tried. It frequently happens, that when both eyes are inflamed, and a complete cataract forms in one of them, the ot--er becomes per- fectly sound and strong. It must be observed, that when a horse has suffered more than once from this disease, and is in low condition, evacuations must not be made too freely: there are few cases, however, where moderate bleeding and a laxative are not required. With respect to topical applications, or those remedies which are applied immediately to the eye, I must confess that I have not seen much benefit derived from them, except when the inflammation has abated considerably, . nd there remains an opacity or film on the surface; and then com- mon salt, finely powdered, has often proved useful. But if the eye have been in this state for some time, and the opacity is very considerable, white glass, finely powdered and mixed with honey, is a more effectual remedy. Whenever the eyes are weak, or in a state of inflammation, the vapours which arise from foul litter, should be carefully guarded against; indeed, it is by no means an improbable conjecture, that when the eyes are weak, these irritating vapours may often prove the exciting cause of inflammation. There is a cartilaginous body connected with the eyes of horses commonly termed the haw. Whenever the eye is drawn into the socket (which the horse has the power of doing by means of a muscle that does not exist in the human subject.) the haw is forced over the eye, so that when dust happens to ad- here to the surface of the eye, he is enabled, by means of this