The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattleKoogle, J. D.
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The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattle
The foregoing remedies are very plain and simple, and cannot fail if
properly applied. In washing the ulcers, use none other than castile
soap, which is far superior to any other for cleansing and healing wounds
and eruptions of any kind, and can be had from any of the drug stores
at 25 cents per pound. It is also an excellent article for domestic
purposes, such as shaving, &c. and will be found cheaper than any other
fine or toilet soaps.
FLATULENT OR WIND COLIC.
This is an entirely different disease from the Spasmodic Colic. It often
originates with something that the horse has eaten and then drinking
large quantities of water, by which the food becomes fermented and
creates a gastric gas, which enlarges to a greater or less extent,
sometimes to twenty or thirty times the bulk of the food. It generally
takes place in the stomach, but at times in the small or large intestines.
SYMPTOMS.
The horse suddenly slacks his pace, perhaps lays or falls down as if he
were shot. In the stable he paws the floor with his fore feet, lays down
and rolls, starts up instantly and throws himself down again with greater
violence, looks wistfully at his flanks, and makes many fruitless efforts
to void his urine. Here the symptoms are similar to other colics, but the
true character of the disease soon develops itself.--It is in one of
the large intestines, and the belly swells all round, but mostly on the
right flanks and as the disease progresses the pain becomes more intense,
and the horse more violent. The treatment is quite different from other
colics.
REMEDY NO. 1.
Take 1 ounce of the chlorate of lime and ½ pint of warm water, put it
into a bottle and shake well, so as to dissolve, then give it as a
drench which will devour the gas, and cause the swelling to subside. If
in fifteen minutes after this has been given, the pain does not seem to
have been alleviated, take 4 ounces of spirits of Pimento, and 1 ounce
of Laudanum, mix it with ½ pint of warm water and give it also as a
drench. If you have no pimento and it is not convenient to get it, take
2½ ounces of peppermint, and 1 ounce of laudanum, and should you not have
laudanum, take a larger quantity of peppermint with ½ pint of warm water,
and give it as a drench. In this disease no time should be lost, as it
very often runs its course in from 1 to 2 hours. If the first should not
give relief in 15 or 20 minutes, repeat it until it does. Rubbing the
belly with a smooth rail or pole will greatly facilitate the action of
the medicine. Should you not have any of the above remedies on hand or
convenient, use from 1 to 2 ounces of golden tincture as the case may
require.
REMEDY NO. 2.
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