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A treatise on veterinary medicine ... / by James White.

  • White, James, -1825
Date:
1820
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    symptoms ceased. On repeating it afterwards, it was found that much larger doses could be given without inconvenience. In some cases, it was given to the extent of two pounds, in the course of the day, made into an electuary with honey. It is stated, that a considerable number of horses were thus cured. Besides giving the sulphur, about two quarts of blood were taken off every third or fourth day during the treatment. The following statement is annexed to the pamphlet: “The veterinary surgeon attached to the impe- rial breeding stud of Borculo, in Holland, has practised M. Collaine’s mode of treatment; and, after two months’ trial, thirty glandered horses were perfectly cured, ten are in a state of convales- cence, and twenty have died during the treatment.” Notwithstanding the boasted efficacy of this mode of treatment, it appears, from a recent publication on Glanders, by M. Dupuy, that it has been fairly tried at the Veterinary School at Alfort, and has not, in a single instance, succeeded. M. Dupuy’s work appeared in 1817, in one volume, 8vo. and treats of glanders as a tubercular or tuberculous affection, having for itstitle, «* De l’affection tuberculeuse, vul- gairement appellée Morve (glanders), Pulmonie (consumption, or phthisis), Gourme (strangles), Fausse Gourme (spurious, or bastard strangles), Farcin, (farcy).” Some observations on this work will be found in the Appendix, under the head Glanders. The most valuable work that has ap- peared in France, since the revolution, is “ A Trea- tise on the Anatomy of Domestic Auimals,” by Professor Girard, 1807, 2 volumes, 8vo. In 1813, there appeared “ A Treatise on the Feet,” by the same author, in one volume, 8vo. with six plates, illustrative of the anatomy of the foot, not only of the horse, but of the other domestic animals, and
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