The illustrated horse doctor : $b being an accurate and detailed account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjectedMayhew, Edward
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The illustrated horse doctor : $b being an accurate and detailed account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjected
Mayhew, Edward
Horses -- Diseases
Almost in the same place the horse may stand three or four days; then
the abdomen is much increased in size; the animal is restless; the pulse
is extremely feeble; the breathing is very fast; the pupil of the eye
is dilated and the sight is lost. A walk as in a mill is commenced;
obstacles are run into or upset; delirium begins; weak neighs are uttered
in reply to visionary challenges; the coat is ragged; copious and partial
perspirations break forth; the beat of the artery is lost at the jaw; an
intermittent flutter is to be indistinctly felt at the heart. At last
the limbs fail; the body falls; struggles ensue, and the creature dies
in consequence of the distended abdomen compressing the lungs, thus
preventing the breath being inhaled.
Relief should be afforded before the distress grows urgent; when the
flatulence comes on without green provender being consumed, the chances
favor recovery; even then, however, the gas may be confined to the
stomach, which obliges entire dependence to be placed upon internal
remedies. In the beginning, a ball composed of two drachms of sulphuret of
ammonia, with a sufficiency of extract of gentian and powdered quassia,
may be repeated thrice, half an hour being suffered to elapse between
each administration. No benefit ensuing, one ounce of chlorate of potash,
dissolved in a pint of cold water and mingled with two ounces of sulphuric
ether, may, at the expiration of the time named, be horned down. After
another hour, should no amendment be perceptible, two ounces each of
sulphuric ether and laudanum, half an ounce of camphorated spirits, and
one drachm of carbonate of ammonia may be given in a pint of cold water.
Should no good effects ensue, in another hour throw up a tobacco-smoke
enema by means of the machine here represented.
[Illustration: THE TOBACCO-SMOKE ENEMA. WORMS.]
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