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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    [ 50] was supposed, by the persons present, to be dying: I immedi- ately opened both temporal arteries; and, after losing a consid- erable quantity of blood, he got up, was perfectly composed, and had no return of his complaint. CASE II. A young, healthy, carriage horse, that had been highly fed* •nd done but little work, was attacked with mad staggers: the delirium ran so high, that he leaped through a small window, nearly five feet from the ground. This horse was copiously bled, took a strong purgative, and had a rowel under the jaw. He perfectly recovered, and had no return of the complaint. CASE III. A troop horse was attacked with mad staggers, and, though relieved by copious bleeding, and the other remedies above men- tioned, after a few days the disease terminated in death. On examining the brain, a bony substance was found in its ventricle, or cavity. CHAPTEK VII. On the Stomach, or Sleepy Staggers* In the sleepy staggers the horse appears drowsy, hangs his head in the manger, and refuses his food. The tongue and mouth are of a yellowish color; the membrane, which lines the inner surface of the eyelid, is more deeply tinged with yellow, approaching to a deep orange color; there is a slight convulsive motion, or twitching of the muscles of the breast; the fore legs appear suddenly to give way, at time4?, as if the horse would falli but this very rarely happens, and he very seldom lies down, un- less the disease is going otf, or death is approaching. The pulse is never affected in the early stages of this complaint. It is al- ways attended by costiveness; and, when the dung is drawn off, by introducing the hand into the gut, it is found to be hard, and of a dark color, often covered with mucus, or white, slimy matter. Sometimes there is suppression of urine, which ap- pears to arise from a paralytic state of the bladder: this, how- ever, is seldom the case, in the early stages of the complaint. The temperature of the body is generally the same as in health; but, in violent cases, and in the later stages of the complaint, there is often profuse perspiration, and coldness of the legs and ears: in some instances, one half the body has become cold and palsied.