The New-England farrier : being a compendium of farriery : in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are subject, are treated of; with medical and surgical operations thereon : being the result of many years' experience : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett, of Rowley.

  • Jewett, Paul.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The New-England farrier : being a compendium of farriery : in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are subject, are treated of; with medical and surgical operations thereon : being the result of many years' experience : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett, of Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    the swelling. If you wish to drj up the sore, powder chalk, or old shoes burnt, and cover the sore with it. If his back is full of hard lumps, cr what are commonly called saddle boils, bleed him freely in the mouth, which will serve as a dose of physic; then wash his back often with hot rum and vinegar. Bleeding. THIS is a resource which unskilful men fly to en every failure of their horse, without consider- ing the nature of the disease, or state of the horse's body. Proper Siibjects for Bleeding.—HORSES that are affected with any inflammatory disorder, whether general or topical, as fevers, inflamed sores, or any hot humour, are proper subjects for bleeding. Horses that are fat and plethoric, re- quire more frequent bleeding than those of the opposite state ; but observe not to deprive them of the vital fluid beyond necessity ; rather bleed often, and but little at a time. Horses that are poor have no fluid to spare : rather recruit them by a generous diet, and re*t. Unskilful groom?, when they bleed in the ju- gular, often cut thr?ftigh the vein; whence an extravasation of the blood, and no small danger to t!ie horse* Among many other instances, the Hon. Ben- jamin Creenleaf, Esq. sent me a horse in this condition I ordered his servant to apply the simple remedy of cold water, liberally, and in a few days he was cured.