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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    fait of wormwood mixture, to be added to the preceding dofes of nitre; by neutral mixture we mean, lemon-juice, faturatcd with fait of wormwood, or pot-afli may be ufed inftead of fait of wormwood, fix or eight ounces of this mixture for.one dofe. In the ufe of thefe remedies we Readily and diligently perfift, till the inflammatory fymp- toms give way, then we judge no other kind of medicines neceffary for the horfe's recovery, but continue the fame in fmaller dofes, and lefs frequent. Before we quit the matter under conli- deration, we inform ourfelves, and our readers, with the opinion of the lateft wri- ter, the Claflical Farrier, publiflidd by Mr. Merrick.' Mr. Merrick at the end of his book of upwards of 800 pages, to give his readers a ftill further knowledge of phyfic in the pra6lice of farriery, adds a fupple- mcnt