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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    Bracken alfo having given his opinion on this matter, in his Art of Farriery, we think it altogether to our purpofe here : *• Bleeding is requifite in all impofthuma- tions, or gatherings of corrupt matter, in any part of a horfe's body; and more efpecially when fuch fwellings are fituate upon the glands or kernels of the throat, or when they endanger fuffocation, or any other evil accident. A fever medicine al- fo will be ufefully given once or twice a- day, or even oftener, as the exigency of the cafe may feem to call for it—a nitrous anti- monial dofe we think, of from half an ounce, to 6 drams of nitre, as much liquorice powder, or any teflaceous powder, and from 20 grains to 30 of the antimonial powder, of the New London Difpenfatory, for one dofe, given in two or three horns of gruel, which will be necelfary to dilute and foften the purgency of the nitre: Nitre given with- D out