Every Man His Own Doctor: The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and CattleClaridge, R. T. (Richard Tappin)
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Every Man His Own Doctor: The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and Cattle
Claridge, R. T. (Richard Tappin)
Hydrotherapy; Veterinary medicine
_Tender Feet._--All horses should stand upon clay, bricks, or stones;
not upon straw, as it heats the feet too much. For corns or tender feet,
foot-baths for an hour or two, two or three times a day are resorted to;
and bandages should be worn from the fetlock to the knee-joints, to draw
the heat from the feet. A friend of the author's, travelling on the
Continent, tried this on a mare which became lame: it succeeded
admirably.
_Cholic._--Apply one or two clysters of cold water; wet the body, and
rub the animal well for an hour with wet whisps, and then put round the
body a sheet wetted and doubled several times, covered with a dry
blanket. If the first operation is not sufficient, resort to the packing
process, and afterwards the rubbing. This system persevered in, the
cholic is sure to give way.
_Lock-Jaw._--Friction, the douche, and perspiration, are the remedies
resorted to. During the intervals of their application, cold bandages
should be applied.
The irritation of the skin counteracts the lock-jaw. The efficiency of
cold water in this complaint has been known in England for years. An
article, some time ago, appeared in the Chelmsford paper, stating that
the possessor of a valuable horse, which had been seized with lock-jaw,
after trying all other means in vain, threw from the loft, upon the
animal, a hogshead or more of water, and then had him covered up in
blankets. This brought on perspiration, and a cure was the result. An
acquaintance of the author's, in Gloucester[s]hire, who treated a horse
in a similar way, was equally successful.
_Fever and Inflammation._--For the treatment of all fevers and
inflammations the reader is referred to the method prescribed for human
beings in similar cases.
For a horse in a high state of inflammation, Priessnitz prescribed his
being put into a river for five minutes, then taken out, rubbed dry, for
five minutes, then put again into the water and again rubbed, a process
renewed until the inflammation had completely subsided. Sometimes this
is effected in a short time; at others, it requires constant application
for seven or eight hours. Perseverance in this treatment is certain of
effecting a cure.
In an ordinary case of fever, resort to the wet-sheet packing; if
necessary, change the sheet often, then administer a cold bath or
affusion; repeat the operation twice a-day.
In all cases of inflammation or fever, if the body is confined, it is
necessary to resort to clysters.
_Want of appetite._--If frictions with wisps of straw upon a wet surface
repeated three times a day do not produce appetite, the wet-sheet
packing followed by ablutions and bandages must be resorted to.
_To refresh and invigorate a horse._--Let him be well rubbed with coarse
wet cloths or whisps of hay for an hour or two twice a day, then walked
about until dry: a foot bath twice a-day for an hour each time, and the
loins and legs bandaged.
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