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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    [ 54] horses, in this neighborhood, are all badly managed ; yet I have known those, who lake proper care of their horses, who do not overwork them, and even those, who keep them at grass, lose all their horses, when their less careful neighbors lost none. I hate known a man lose his whole stock twice in one year. When I began to fear contagion, every horse, that died ofihe distemper, was buried without being skinned. We have had no return these five years. Causes of the Disorder. In the mild form, in which, it appears to me, you have seen the disease, I think the causes you assign sufficient; but, (except as to some poisonous quality in the food.) I cannot think 1 lit in to be the cause with us. I strongly suspect it arises hem some poisonous plants, in our pastures, which, perhaps, flourish only, Lj a poisonous extent, at seme particular times, and which have not hitherto been detected. I have mentioned our horses hav- ing been attacked the year following our neighbors great lose, and when they were free from it: most of our horses were pur- posely kept in the stable; and I have some idea, that they were fed upon hay of the same year, that our neighbor's horses were fed upon the preceding year: could this fact be ascertained, it mignt lead to a discovery of the real cause of the disorder. J suspect the poison act's by paralyzing the stomach, that its ful- ness is a consequence, not a cause, of the disease. Mr. Cole- man was consulted, by our neighbors, at an early stage, during the last attack we had, and 1 have a copy of a letter horn him upon the subject. I have also a copy of Mr. Bond's opinion upon a statement made to him; but neither of them ever saw the progress of the disorder with us, and they do not appear to me to nave thrown any light upon the subject. ''I shall be much flattered, if my communication affords you any information you may think worth notice. If you wi expl inafjon of any thing I have sta'ed, I shall be happy in en- deavoring to give it. I am, & c : March 7, 1811. Sin, Since I wrote to you, in London, I have reviewed my pa- pers, and I do not see reason to alter any thing I have said in the lett< r you refer to my having wri it two years'ago, and of which 1 have kept a copy; but as you have made some in- quiries respecting the disorder of my own valuable ho:se, and