The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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Horses jaded, and completely fatigued, with long and dirty journies, in
dull, dreary, and sometimes tempestuous, weather, are so entirely
debilitated, that they prefer REST to FOOD, and can hardly be kept upon
their legs, to go through the necessary comforts of _dressing_ and
_cleaning_ as an unavoidable prelude to the more substantial relief of
the night. In such state they require a little extra attention; an
invigorating CORDIAL BALL, so soon as it can possibly be obtained; a
mash of ground malt, and bran equal parts; in want of the malt, a mash
of bran and oats, made of boiling water, and six ounces, or half a
pound, of honey, may be introduced as a substantial substitute. The
water should not be from the pump, but soft, as from a rainy reservoir,
or the river, with the chill taken off: if in the winter, the clothing
should be warm; the bed plentiful, high, clean, and dry; as well as all
such crevices closely stopped as admit currents of air; by which
precaution, not only temporary ills, but dangerous diseases, are
frequently prevented.
ITCHING.—Horses are sometimes observed to labor under a severe itching,
or internal irritation, which keeps them in a kind of perpetual
disquietude; biting such parts as they can get at with the mouth, and
rubbing those more remote against such parts of the stall as are most
convenient, by which the hair is frequently rubbed off, and the skin
excoriated. In cases of this description, the blood does not possess a
proper or just equalization of the component parts indispensibly
necessary to the standard of health. It mostly arises from a deficiency
of crassamentum, or adhesive property of the blood, by which it becomes
more or less impoverished, and abounds with a redundancy of SERUM; this,
for want of its natural corrector, acquires ACRIMONY, and soon begins to
display its mischievous power and tendency to cutaneous morbidity in the
way described. Permitted to continue and increase, without salutary
counteraction, it extends its progress from a simple itching, in the
first instance, to scurfy eruptions, scaly exfoliations, or partial loss
of hair; bearing the external appearance of surfeit, degenerating, by
degrees, to inveterate MANGE, or confirmed FARCY. To prevent which, the
system should be improved, and the circulation enlivened, by an
invigoration of the frame: the property of the blood should be enriched
by an ADDITION to the QUANTITY, and an ALTERATION in the QUALITY of the
food. A great deal of substantial dressing should be adopted in the
stable, and regular gentle exercise out; as a collateral aid to which, a
course of ANTIMONIAL ALTERATIVE POWDERS should be brought into use, till
every symptom of disquietude has disappeared.
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