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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    Two ounces were given to another horse, and produced the same effects in a more sensible degree. T must again here emphatically remark, that when the animal is in a state of debility, as after inflammatory attacks, severe purging, bleeding, or other evacuations, he cannot withstand its action ; but the whole system, especially the alimentary canal, rushes into a most violent and fatal inflammation; and the carcase opened after death, has a peculiarly strong offensive smell. My friend William Moorcroft, informed me he gave a horse one ounce of opium every two hours, in a case of locked jaw, without destroying the animal. That their resistance to its effects is truly remarkable ; and the more so as the gentle stimulus of oats produce!* with them almost the exhilaration of wine. Alcohol. Large quantities of brandy, or spirit of any kind, appear also only to stupify them, but do not induce real drunkenness as far as I have ever seen, and I have pushed it as far as three pints, and two bottles. Tobacco. Two ounces of Virginia tobacco was beat with a little water and meal into two halls and administered to an old emaciated horse ; but pro- duced no effect that was visible. The next day four ounces were given him ; observed five hours after, no effect was produced, except that the respiration appeared rather quickened. In the morning I examined him before the grooms were in the stable, found his dung a little moister and slimy, his pulse equal, 49, a great discharge of mucous from the nostrils, thick, semi-transparent, streaked with white lines. I observed no other effects. , ’<(’ otin b-jiif ABO 1> L* -i««»*! d- s , „ , ,, ifrrw >• • Or' •fit moit umO <; ft * -rmioufJ H L1 d -| i ^TTTT^noo no >iii hsn^iipof- imi/i.-d i<- ,1; • ■;,.«! ... lijl U lud fIUfV«2lb to fit .i UJfl wU< J.- MEDICO-DIETETICS. -» ) V nrfth > VtT * i >13 1H (it ■/ifl >Wii i-IDi ‘ ? ' I To make a Bran Mask. Take of bran or pollard the quantity intended to be given, as half a peck, put it into a bucket, and pour upon it scalding water enough to thoroughly wet it; let it be well stirred with a stick, or squeezed with the hands, and stand covered over, till of the tem- perature of new milk, or quite cold, if so required. If it is desirable to render it more nutritious, oats may be added, or malt, or treacle, or honey. A Malt Mash. In the same way, using malt for bran. Blanch Water. Take three or four handfuls of bran, wet it with scalding water enough that it may be squeezed and worked with the hands till it becomes clammy, then add as much
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