Notes on Diseases of the Horse: Cause, Symptoms and Treatment — John Shaqi
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
It is to be borne in mind that pure water and nourishing food play a very
important part in the treatment of Anemia.
APHTHAE.
(_Sore mouth and tongue—Pustular Stomatitis_)
CAUSE.—Superficial eruptions of the mucous membranes of the mouth and
tongue. Frequently seen during convalescence of intermittent fever.
This condition may also follow diseases of the digestive system, as
Indigestion, etc., due to the blood absorbing toxic materials which break
out in the form of pustules about the mouth and the whole alimentary
canal (stomach and intestines).
SYMPTOMS.—The appetite is impaired, the mouth hot, the pulse not much
affected as a rule, the temperature is slightly elevated, the animal is
unable to masticate, and small vesicles appear and eventually terminate
into pustules and burst and discharge a small amount of pus at the parts
where the sores are the deepest.
TREATMENT.—Remove the cause if possible. Feed clean, soft food that
is easily digested, as hot wheat bran mashes and steamed rolled oats,
vegetables, etc. For a mouth-wash dissolve the following: One dram of
Copper Sulphate, one dram of Chlorate of Potash, one dram of Boracic
Acid in clean hot water, and syringe out the mouth two or three times a
day. To the drinking water add one ounce of Hyposulphite of Soda twice a
day. Where the appetite is impaired, administer the following: Pulv. Nux
Vomica, Pulv. Gentian Root, Pulv. Iron, Pulv. Nitrate of Potash each two
ounces. Mix and make into sixteen capsules and give one capsule three
times a day with capsule gun.
AZOTURIA.
CAUSE.—This disease is usually due to work after a period of idleness,
during which the animal has been liberally fed. It is found principally
among highly-fed draft horses, and never in animals which are regularly
worked. Light breeds of horses are also susceptible to this disease.
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