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
For this case no more must be done than was directed for the milder form
of the disease. The animal may be gently cleansed, but this office must
be tenderly performed; for the filth will do far less harm to the horse
than the provocation of irritability. Gruel, repeatedly changed, should
always be within easy reach of the mouth; the pail should be hung upon
a hook, so that the head may not be necessarily raised to reach the
nourishment. A little of the sediment, strained from the gruel, should be
placed in the manger, as some quadrupeds will only eat; others will only
drink; a third class will be content with such nourishment as they can
suck up from the more solid form of slops; a fourth may all but starve,
yet no coaxing will induce the sufferers to look at aught but the dry,
hard food, which they dare not swallow. Most, however, will feed on
green-meat, and this should always be at hand. Should the animal become
worse, tracheotomy may be necessitated. Then stout and treacle should be
liberally horned down--half a pound of treacle being mingled with the
quart of stout, and the whole mixed with a quart of good thick gruel.
However, give at one time only so much as can be taken without distress
being occasioned.
Such cases, bad as they may appear, are not to be despaired of; nor are
the tumors, on any account, to be opened before they have thoroughly
maturated. Hasty incisions may throw the abscesses back upon the system.
When that is the case, real danger is provoked; the horse seldom thrives
afterward.
In some instances the tumor will burst internally. It may find egress
through the nostrils; but if it burst into the large guttural pouches of
the animal, the pus may be there imprisoned until it becomes inspissated,
and, by the motion of the jaws, kneaded into numerous distinct masses,
resembling small sea-side pebbles. Such has been witnessed, but should
hardly now occur; since Professor Varnell, of the Royal Veterinary
College, has invented an instrument by means of which these cavities can
be effectually injected, and even washed out.
Besides those varieties already mentioned, there is yet another form of
strangles: that is, where no tumor appears beneath the jaws, but several
form on other parts of the body. The greatest number of abscesses the
author has heard of, being developed on one body, is seven. They generally
contained about a pint of pus; and, if the direction given for the
treatment of strangles be observed, the animal will usually recover upon
these being opened.
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