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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    [ 55] his treatment, I send you the fullest account I have of it, and some observations made by Mr. Collins, an intelligent surgeon, at Swansea, to whom I communicated the particulars of the case at the time. They are as follows: March 2, 1802.—My own riding horse, in high condition, and capitally groomed, lost his appetite: having a cough, it was supposed to be from cold. March 3.—He was blooded. His blood was considered as in a bad state; (note, I did not see the blood, nor do I know in what respect it was considered as bad.) When led out, he seemed si iff: and, when taken in again, he ran first against the stall, then against the rack, as if he did not see. He then had rather a si rong dose of aloes, and a pint of olive oil: he then be- C ame violent. At four o'clock I came in : he was extremely ill, but did not seem to me to have any appearance peculiar to the distemper: he had just staled freely. Between nine and ten, he fell, or lay down; between twelve and one, he died. Early in the afternoon, the groom observed, that the near ear wasquite cold; the other, temperate. Our farrier said, the whole of the near side was cold two hours before he died. His jaw became locked about the same period. I did not see hira after four o'clock. Upon opening the body, the appearances were altogether healthy: no inflammation of any part; no distension of the sto- mach; the food quite moist; the brain uninjured, Extract of a letter from Mr. Collins. I am very sorry to find you have lost your favorite hoise, and lam much inclined to think, with the farrier, that it was apople.w, or palsy. Was the state of the brain examined?—I do not think it was the dis'emper. Palsy frequently succeed* apoplexy, from the pressure of extra vasa ted blood in one hem- isphere of the brain. He certainly died paralytic, as appears from the coldness of one ear, and failure of circulation on that side. From a letter 1 wrote to Mr. Rickward, some time afterward, detailing our losses, and of which 1 have a copy, I find 1 consid- ered the case as anomalous;! ut, upon the whole, I am dispos- ed to think it was a peculiar form of the same disease, which we have, in this country, denominated the distemper. I have suspected, that the distension of the stomach with food hag arisen from a paralysis of the stomach, so that food conveyed there remained immoveable. If it arise from a poisonous qual- ity in the food, this may be the way il acts.—Ve have not had any retain of the distemper since 1803.