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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![[53] such as are kept in a stable, and under the best management, arc also subject to the disorder. In the year 1801, or 1802, when it last raged with us, I lost a valuable horse, that was per- fectly well groomed; but I shall have 1o make some observa- tions on his case, when I mention the dissections, and the ap- prehensions I have of the disorder being contagious; which I shall now proceed to do. The appearance and state of the stomach are generally such as you have described; but, in the valuable horse before men- tioned, and a few others, which died of this disorder, it was not the case. . . I beg here to observe, that I had been very strict in my sta- ble regimen, and particularly in the quantity, quality, and time of giving food and water; and I attribute the emptiness of the stomach to this cause: though I did not prevent the disease by this precaution, it made all the symptoms milder. I am not a surgeon, or a scientific'man; but, in examining the bodies of horses, after death, I have been assisted by a surgeon; and have generally found, with the exception of the loaded stomach, and a slight inflammation, for a sma! ;ngth below the pylo- rus, (the lower orifice of the stomach, from which the digested food passes into the intestines.) and sometimes, a little reple- tion in the vessels of the brain, every part free from disease. I could not, for a long time, believe that the disease was contagious: I now far it is most highly so; but do not think, that this circumstance has been proved. When the disorder last began, a neighbor, who had lost a great many horses by it, sent a parcel of their skins, to a neighboring town, to be sold, the horses, that drew the waggon, in which they were convey- ed, were the next, and that in a short space of lime, that fell victims to the disorder. Horses, that had been in the stables where the disorder raged, were sent to work under ground; there also, the disorder soon after made its appearance, for the first time. Our neighbors firmly believe it is contagious: they took every precaution to prevent contagion, and the disease left them. I was incredulous, and. at this time, we had not suiier- fid: a horse from their neighborhood came to graze in some fields through which some of our horses passed; he died oflhis disorder, and was left unburied. From this moment, the dis- temper began with us; but, not knowing the circumstance of the horse remaining unburied, I took no precaution to prevent contagion. The valuable horse before mentioned was taken ill the next day, and soon died. He had been at a neighboring fair, and was left under the care of a man, to hold, while J did my'business: I do not know that he had any communication with other horses, but suppose he must. The common farmers'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21163728_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
