Notes on Diseases of the Horse: Cause, Symptoms and TreatmentKorinek, Charles James
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Notes on Diseases of the Horse: Cause, Symptoms and Treatment
Korinek, Charles James
Horses -- Diseases
SYMPTOMS.—Dullness in spirit; animal usually shivers or trembles; when
this ceases the temperature rises to perhaps 103° to 106° F., pulse
increases to sixty or ninety per minute, full and bounding; breathing
short and labored and abnormally quick, increasing to perhaps fifty
inspirations per minute, whereas in health it does not exceed twelve
or thirteen per minute. A cough is also likely to be present, and the
animals remain standing until they are on the road to recovery, or until
death takes place. Other symptoms are constipation, feces covered with
mucus or slime; urination frequent, scanty and dark in color; appetite
poor, but thirst great; the eyes look glassy and the membranes have an
inflamed appearance. It is a good sign if the animal looks about freely.
When the critical stage is past the temperature and pulse gradually
fall, the appetite returns and the urine becomes more abundant, and takes
on its natural color, the cough loosens, and the discharge from the lungs
is profuse, and of a yellowish color, and the breathing becomes normal.
TREATMENT.—Good care is of the utmost importance. Place the horse in a
comfortable, well ventilated stall, being careful to exclude drafts. Hand
rub and bandage the legs with woolen cloth. Blanket the animal, give
plenty of bedding and keep pure water before him at all times. Internally
administer Quinine, two ounces; Iodide of Ammonia, two ounces; Ammonia
Bicarbonate, two ounces. Mix well and make into sixteen powders. Place
powder in gelatin capsule, and give with capsule gun every four hours. It
is quite necessary that the above remedy should be placed in capsule, as
drugs of this nature tend to irritate the throat. Do not give physics,
as it is much safer to give laxative food, as hot bran mashes, steam
rolled oats or some vegetables, in fact anything the animal will eat, i.
e., that has food values. It is advisable to apply over the chest the
following liniment: Aqua Ammonia Fort., four ounces; Turpentine, four
ounces; Raw Linseed Oil, four ounces. Mix and shake well before applying
each time over the chest cavity.
In case the animal is constipated, give rectal injections of soap and
warm water containing a few drops of Turpentine.
MANGE.
(_Scabies_)
CAUSE.—Mange is a contagious disease, produced by the presence of a small
parasite that varies in length from a fiftieth to a hundredth of an inch,
according to the species, of which there are three: Sarcoptes, which
generally affects the withers; Symbiotes Communis, affecting the legs,
and the Psoroptes Communis, which affects horses about the root of the
tail and mane. The latter is one most commonly found affecting horses.
They multiply rapidly and are spread from diseased to healthy horses by
their bodies coming in contact with one another, or by corrals, stables,
railroad cars, etc., recently occupied by mangy horses.
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