A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

Date:
1830
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    the vessels,- and consequently to abate the fever. For this purpose I employ cooling salts, as a pro- per medicine, given frequently, in every case.* In other respects, when the horse is seized with the distemper, the treatment should vary according to the different symptoms that attend him. For in- stance, when the patient has a violent fever, with a dry cough, and there be no concomitant discharge or running at the nose, he should be bled largely, [or several times ?] On the contrary, if a discharge at the nose appears, bleeding will be found to do harm, being contrary to the efforts of nature in making such discharge; but in both these circum- stances, he should take cooling salts every six hours, three or four rowels should be put in various parts, where the skin is loose, and the excrement * Epsom salts, or sulphate of soda, has gone into disuse lat- terly in the veterinary practice, chiefly on account of the ex- tremely large doses that are rendered necessary to procure pur- gation, viz. 10 or 12 ounces. It is also a cold and comfortless dose, for horses having any breeding in them, with tender insides, to say nothing of the quantity of the drench, or its nauceousness to the horse-palate. Aloes is ever a more eligible purge; and if the salts is found desirable, on account of its operating on the kidneys, no less so is aloes, when com- bined with much soap, the potass whereof operates upon the same viscus. But should the administering of the saline mixture still find advocates — First, take of the blue pill, in mass, 1§ drachms, (15 gr. cor. sub.) and give at making up; next morning, before exercise, give—Epsom or Glauber’s salts to 6 oz. Water 2 pints. mix intimately, but do not go out to strong ivork until the physic be settled.—Edit.