Pharmacopoeia equina ; or new pharmacopoeia for horses / [Bracy Clark].

  • Bracy Clark
Date:
1833
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia equina ; or new pharmacopoeia for horses / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carrots. Potatoes. ROOTS. Daucus carota. A cooling and nutritious autumn food for horses. Solanum tuberosum. Horses eat them sliced, and some boil them; hut are not so fond of them as carrots. Gourds. FRUITS. In the American Illinois, these, chopped coarsely, are very much given to the horses for food. And in Spain, not only the Acacia Pods hut, dried Figs also are commonly given to horses. Flesh. Div. III. Animal Food. Though the horse is naturally an herbivorous animal, yet there is no doubt he may become by habit a carnivorous one; and so can even a sheep, as John Hunter taught a lamb to eat beef-steak out of his hand. In a magazine, I have seen a well attested account of a colt that was in the practice of visiting a pantry window that looked into his pad- dock, and of stealing and eating mutton, beef, veal, and poultry : pork he seemed to reject. In the East Indies, meat boiled to rags, to which is added some kind of grain and butter, and made into halls, is thrust down their throats. Carpenter’s Introd. to the Wars of India. Also sheep’s heads, during a campaign, are boiled for them in that country. Fish. In Iceland, it is stated by Buffon, that dried fish is made the food of horses; and my friend, William Bullock, Sen., lately informed me he saw them in the same practice in Norway. Milk. Lac Vaccinum, Caprinum, Camelinum. The Arabs, when fodder fails, use milk for feeding their horses, and in travelling over the desert. Provocatives to Appetite and Digestion.—Condimenta. Salt. Soda muriata. Stimulating the coats of the stomach and assisting in Spices. dissolving the food. Pimento, Ginger, Pepper, Mustard, &c. exciting the stomach to a quicker action, and perhaps greater secretion of gastric liquor. MATERIA VENENATA EQUINA. I briefly collect what few facts at present exist, on good authority, in this department of Horse knowledge. Digitalis Fox Glove. Half an ounce of the dried powdered leaves of Digitalis was purpurea. ) made into a ball, and given to an ass at nine in the morning ; at nine in the evening he died. The utmost langour and debility of the system
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