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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    [60] be introduced into the gut, and all bard dung, that may be found, removed. The following clyster is then to be injected: CLYSTER. Hot water, 1 gal. Common salt. a- lb. Olive oil, -* oz. MIX. Give the horse, every hour, a pint of warm water, with half an ounce of compound spirit of ammonia, and let the clyster be repeated three or four limes. Twice a day, add to the warm water and spirit of ammonia, two drams of finely powdered cas- carilla. These remedies (except the purging ball) must be persevered in till purging comes on. lam not convinced, that bleeding is necessary, except when the horse is violent; yet I have always had recourse to it; but never with any apparent advantaoe. In two cases, the horses were bled profusely, without causing an abatement of ihe symptoms. When we are so fortunate as to bring on a purging, it is probable the horse will recover; and, when the purging has become considerable, and the horse appears to be relieved, looking more lively, and showing an inclination for food, he should take frequently a small quantity of good gruel; but no hay or corn should be al- lowed for two days, or until the stomach and bowels are per- fectly unloaded. By a proper perseverance in this treatment, I have, in several instances, succeeded; but it is necessary to attack the disease at its earliest period; for when the stomach is distended to a certain degree, its power is irrecoverably lost. CASE I. A waggon horse was attacked with stomach staggers. When I saw him, he was quite insensible, and had all the usual symp- toms; the pulse exactly the same as in health: he took the purging ball, and, immediately after, a pint of warm water, to which were added four ounces of tincture of asafcelida. Clys- ters were injected several limes a day, and the warm water, with the spirit of ammonia, was given frequently: the follow- ing day, he was worse; the purging ball and clysters were re- peated; but he continued to get worse, and, during the night, died. The purgatives and clysters had not removed the cos- tiveness. The horse had been bled, also, from the temporal ar- teries, and from the jugular vein, to a considerable extent, with- out appearing to be, in the least degree, relieved by it. The stomach was distended to an immense size, and full of