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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    hot and fharp, and their flanks beat violent- ly : The reader mofl: likely, will wonder why vigorous young horfes are more liable to be attacked by this fever, than fluggifli dull horfes of another make; we can only fay it is a French account of the diforder ; and if the matter is fo in France, it is not fo in England. Monf. Solleyfell bleeds in this fever im- mediately, fometimes, he fays, in the neck, temple, or eye veins; and fometimes in the brifket, flanks, or veins of the thighs: The mentioning thefe different places for taking blood from, is (pardonnez-mois, Monf. Sol- leyfell,) nonfenfe ; the vein of the neck, being moft convenient, is always to be pre- ferred ; as bleeding in the neck-will have the fame elfeft as taking the fame quantity of blood from any other part. He advifes the frequent ufe of opening glyflers, and