A treatise on two of the most important diseases which attack the horse, in two parts : Part I. Containing an accurate account of the cause, progress and termination together with the mode of treatment found most successful for the cure of that dreadful disease termed locked jaw and tetanus ... Part II. A treatise on the epidemical disease or catarrhal affection which sometimes prevails among horses / By William Wilkinson, veterinary surgeon.

  • Wilkinson, William.
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1818
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Credit: A treatise on two of the most important diseases which attack the horse, in two parts : Part I. Containing an accurate account of the cause, progress and termination together with the mode of treatment found most successful for the cure of that dreadful disease termed locked jaw and tetanus ... Part II. A treatise on the epidemical disease or catarrhal affection which sometimes prevails among horses / By William Wilkinson, veterinary surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either originally from the head, or from a viscid sizy blood, or from wounds or contusions, &c. But as I have discovered this kind of convulsion or universal cramp in young horses, usually to take its rise from the causes above assigned, to wit,—from vermin in their stomachs, I have therefore in such cases bled but seldom. I made use of no purging glysters, be- cause the irritation made in the bowels, and a discharge from thence, can be of little or no use, but hurtful where a powerful revulsion is not absolutely necessary, especially where a horse cannot feed ; and as for rowels, I have seen the farriers put a rowel on each side of the neck, one in the belly, one in the forehead, and one in each thigh; but the ill success they meet with, has made them not so fond of that kind of practice of late, as formerly, for the skin is drawn so tight in all parts, that the rowels seldom come to a kindly digestion, but are apt to mortify, and thereby increase the horse’s misery, and therefore I have seldom ordered rowelling in this disease but under the jaws or in the breast, there being no room for rowels any where else. What effect opiates may have in destroying vermin, I shall not offer positively to determine : whether by rarifying the blood to a great degree, and consequently augmenting its motion, or by any other quality they cause these eggs to come loose from their adhesion, as we see tobacco water destroy the eggs of vermin on the leaves of plants. In these things we have no way to come at any certainty without ex- periments ; though it is likely, by its relaxing quality, it may be useful in such an universal cramp, especially when the management of it falls into good hands. But all are agreed, that mercury, and several of its preparations, are efficacious in destroying worms, both by its weight and subtilty disposing it to pass through the minutest capillaries ; and also by its globular figure, which no kind of change, by whatever menstruum or any other management it is dissolved, can alter ; and therefore I have given it with good success in various shapes to destroy vermin,—