A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates.

  • White, James, -1825.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 22] jymptoms gradually increase in violence, until they present a very formidable appearance. When the disease however, is oc- casioned by great and long continued exertion, it generally comes on suddenly; and the complaint has a very dangerous appearance in its earliest stage. The symptomatic fever has many symptoms in common with the simple fever, which are loss of appetite, quick pulse, dejec- ted appearance, hot mouth, and debility; and if to these be join- ed difficulty of breathing, and quick working of the flanks, with coldneess of the legs and ears, we may conclude that an inflam- mation of the lungs is the cause of the fever. If thehorse hang down his head in the manger, or lean back upon his collar with a strong appearance of being drowsy, the eyes appearing water? and inflamed, it is probable that the fever deper.do upon an ac- cumulation of blood in the vessels of the brain, and thai the stag- gers are approaching: in this case, however, the pubc i:; net al- ways quickened; sometimes, indeed, I have found it unusually slow.* When the symptoms of fever are joined with a yellowness of theeyesand mouth, an inflammation of the liver i3 indicated. Should an inflammation of the bowels be the cause; the horse is violently griped.—An inflammation of the kidneys will also pro- duce fever, and is distinguished by a suppression of urine and Bfi inability to hear pressure upon the loins.—When inflamma- tion of the bladder is the cause, the horse is frequently staling, voiding only very small quantities of urine, and that with con- siderable pain. Extensive wounds, and particularly those of joints, will also produce symptomatic fever. Sometimes sever- al of the internal parts are inflamed at the same instant; and indeed when inflammation has existed for a considerable length of time, it is seldom confined to the organ in which it origina- ted; the disease spreads to other visera; and when more than one organ is inflamed the symptom will generally be complica- ted: still, however the essential remedies are the same, that is to say, copious and early bleeding, with rowels, &.c. Having now given a general description of symptomatic fev- er, I Bhall proceed to treat of those cases separately to which a- bove I have briefly alluded. * Nearly the same tymptom* are produced, when the ttomach is oppret- •ed or loaded, and incapable of digesting in content*. Se« Staggers and Dilates of the Sto77Utch, Appendix.