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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    [45] When costiveness is one of the symptoms of jaundice, give the ball No. 1, every morning, until moderate purging is produ- ced; but if the bowels be already open, or in a state of purging, give the ball No. 2, every morning. The horse's strength should be supported by infusion of malt or water-gruel. THE BALL. No. I. Calomel, -j dr. Barbadoes aloes, 1^ dr. Castile soap, 2 dr. Rhubarb, 5 dr. To be made into a ball with sirup, for one dose. No. 2. Calomel and opium, of each, - - - - 1 dr. Columbo root, powdered, 3 dr. Powdered ginger, •£ dr. Sirup enough to form a ball for one dose. There is a species of staggers, of which I have seen a great number of cases since I left the army, where yellowness of the eyes and mouth is invariably one of the symptoms; which has often led farriers to consider it as a jaundice, or yellouness, as they term it; and their remedies have generally consisted of saf- fron, turmeric, or other inert medicines of a yellow color, which they seem to consider as an indispensible quality in all medi- cines employed for the yelloics. On the same principle Ihey give dragon's blood, a red resinous substance, and other red medicines, in all cases of internal hemorrhage or bleeding, such as bloody water, <$fc. (See Staggers and Discuses of the Sto- mach.) Flatulent Cholic, Gripes or Fret. This disease generally attacks rather suddenly, and is brought on by various causes: sometimes it is occasioned by drinking a large quantity of cold water, when the body has been heated, and the motion of-the blood accelerated by violent exercise. In horses of delicate constitutions, that have been accustomed to hot stables and warm clothing, it may be brought on merely by drinking water that is very cold, though they nave not been previously exercised. Bad hay appears to be another cause of the complaint; but it frequently occurs without apparent t