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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KIDNEYS.—The horse is always liable to local injuries, as well as
permanent disorders, of these parts. Inflammation and ulceration are
also produced by different means: some proceed from external causes, as
BRUISES and BLOWS; being too heavily laden with burdens, or drawing too
heavy weights; both which should be equally attended to, and guarded
against. The distinguishing symptoms of diseased KIDNIES, are a palpable
weakness of the hind part of the _back_ and _loins_, a painful sinking
of those parts upon pressure, a difficulty of staling, which is
generally voided partially in small quantities, and frequently with
short groans of internal disquietude: in slight affections, the urine is
white, but turbid; in severe cases, very high coloured, as if tinged
with blood: there is mostly a heaviness of the eyes, debility of body, a
loathing of food, and a tendency to symptomatic fever. From whatever
cause an injury may arise, or from whatever state of the body a disease
of the parts may proceed, BLEEDING largely is the first step to speedy
relief, and the prevention of danger. The _quality_ and _quantity_ of
MEDICINE must be regulated by the shades, as well as the duration, of
the disorder, according to consequences likely to ensue. Warm glysters
of gruel and olive oil occasionally; mashes, made of ground malt and
bran, for food; and thin gruel for drink, in which GUM ARABIC should be
dissolved, to lubricate the passages, and sheath any asperity with which
the parts may be affected. Should the weakness of the loins increase,
the difficulty of staling continue, the urine become more thick and
fœtid, the strength more reduced, and the frame emaciated, one or both
the kidneys may be considered in a state of ulceration, and cure cannot
be expected.
KILLING GAME.—The privilege of KILLING GAME (in any way whatever) is now
dependent upon a two-fold qualification; in want of BOTH which, the
transgressor renders himself liable to a DOUBLE, and in want of
_either_, to a _single_ penalty; which, divested of technical ambiguity,
and the complicated abstrusity of the GAME LAWS in their present
extended state, is reduced to the following state of simplification,
adapted to every comprehension.
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