POISONS 



Treatment. — Rub the horse all over to promote circulation, 

 and give strong doses of brandy and water. 



Antimony, or, as it is sometimes called, tartar emetic, 

 is a by no means uncommon cause of trouble to horses and 

 their owners, as if administered to an animal in small 

 quantities it has the effect of improving the brightness of 

 the coat, and hence is often administered surreptitiously 

 and illegally by servants to their charges in the form of 

 condition powders, concerning the composition of which 

 they know nothing. 



The Symptoms are shivering, purging, and sweating, 

 associated with pains in the stomach and great weakness. 



Treatment. — Tannin being an antidote to antimony, give 

 the horse very strong half-pint doses of tea at frequent 

 intervals pending the arrival of professional advice. 



Arsenic. — A horse often falls a victim to arsenical 

 poisoning through licking iron or woodwork which has been 

 painted green, or picking up some poisoned grain that has 

 been laid for the destruction of vermin. This poison is 

 cumulative in its effects, by which it is meant that a series 

 of small doses spread over an interval of time can in the end 

 be as fatal as a large quantity taken at once. 



The Chief Symptoms are violent shiverings, bloodshot 

 eyes, out of which the water pours, a deep red colour of the 

 inside of the nostrils, which generally discharge a fluid, cold 

 limbs, profuse sweating, accompanied by purging, a frothy 

 discharge from the mouth, and intense internal pains. 



Treatment. — In cases of suspected arsenical poisoning 

 professional advice should forthwith be sought. Should 

 this not be procurable at once, the strength of the horse may 

 be kept up by drenches of ^^g and milk, and a dose of 

 peroxide of iron, which may be obtained of the nearest 

 chemist, should be administered. If this is unobtainable, 

 drenches of linseed oil may be alternated with the &%^ and 

 milk ; in acute cases give i pint dialysed iron in i quart 

 of water. 



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