A treatise on the strangles and fevers of horses : with a plate, representing a horse in the staggers, slung / by Thomas Prosser.

  • Prosser, Thomas, active 1790.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A treatise on the strangles and fevers of horses : with a plate, representing a horse in the staggers, slung / by Thomas Prosser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ( 125 ) pulfe, and who was attending their (Mr.. Hunter's and Mr. Home's) leftures, and putting himfelf to a great expence in edu- cation, with a defign to praclife farriery. Mr. Home, however, Mr. Hunter being Confined, had fo many engagements, that he could not attend; but the gentleman mentioned, went with me to the horfe : He found the parts greatly fwelled and in- flamed ; but the inflammation, as I have obferved, was now not fo great as to raife a fever, nor to occafion any great pain, fo that local application feemed all that was neceffary. The above gentleman advifed topical bleeding; and twenty leeches were endea- voured to be applied, but ten only would take: the ufe of the fomentation was con- tinued^ or rather renewed, as it had been ' left