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THE HORSE. AN'D 



[iNELAMMATIONS. 



monous inflammatory attack on the peritoneal 

 covering of the iutestines, this is usually an 

 affection of their villous surface, the conse- 

 quence of the administration of improper 

 purging medicines, either as to quantity or 

 quality, by which such a state of irritation is 

 produced as ends in inflammation. It is 

 always accompanied with purging ; whereas the 

 former has almost always costiveness con- 

 nected with it. Neither is the pain so acute 

 in the latter ; consequently the horse seldom 

 exhibits so much uneasiness by rolling or 

 stamping. The pulse is also quick and small, 

 but seldom hard. If the symptoms of in- 

 flammation be very active ; that is, if the pain 

 approaches distress, if the extremities feel 

 cold, and the pulse betokens much vascular 

 action, three quarts of blood may be drawn ; 

 but, unless these appearances exist in force, it 

 will be more prudent to omit it. Stimulants 

 should, however, be applied to the bowels, as 

 directed in inflammation of them ; the cloth- 

 ing, also, should be warm, and means taken to 

 keep up the circulation in the extremities by 

 hand-rubbing and bandaging. The stable 

 should likewise be kept warm, and the follow- 

 ing drink given every four hours : — 



Prepared Chalk , . . . 1^ oz. 



Rice 2 do. 



Boil the rice in three pints of soft water, until 

 it is a complete jJwZp; then squeeze it through 

 a fine cloth. Add the chalk to the liquor, 

 breaking down the lumps, and give at a proper 

 warmth. As before instructed, give every four 

 hours. Should this not appear to relieve the 

 animal, take of — 



Laudanum 1 oz. 



Gum-arabic 2 do. 



Pirst boil the gum-arabic, in rather more than 

 a quart of good oatmeal gruel ; then add the 

 laudanum, and give as before directed. During 

 the exhibition of the medicine, continue to 

 apply clysters of rice and water, made as 

 shown above. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 



The liver of the horse is, of itself, seldom 

 the first affected with inflammation, though, 

 when other great abdominal inflammations 

 take place, it frequently participates in the 

 disease. 



The symptoms of this complaint generally 



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commence in appearances not very unlike a 

 slight attack of inflammation of the bowels ; 

 but they are unattended with that rising up 

 and lying down, which, so frequently, is an 

 accompaniment of the latter disease. Still, 

 the horse will often turn his head to his 

 right side, evincing considerable pain ; and if 

 his right side be pressed with the hand, he 

 will make a peculiar grunting noise, indicative 

 of suftering. If he be turned round in his 

 stall, to the right hand, it will be with great 

 difficulty, which will further show the pain he is 

 labouring under. The extremities are gene- 

 rally cold ; considerable heaving at the flank 

 takes place ; the pulse is quick and hard, and 

 the mouth is hot, attended with a yellowness 

 of the lining of the membrane which covers it. 

 The nostrils and the conjunctiva of the eye also 

 participate in this yellow tinge. These ap- 

 pearances, taken collectively, are the indica- 

 tions which lead to the discovery of this 

 complaint. 



The disease is frequently attended with 

 costiveness ; and in consequence of the secreted 

 bile not passing oft' in its usual way, it be- 

 comes absorbed in the system ; and hence 

 that yellowness of the skin and of the 

 finer membranes. Occasionally, a disagreeable 

 morbid secretion is set up, and the horse's 

 dung becomes loose, and remarkably black, 

 attended with an exceedingly offensive smell. 

 If the disease should terminate in violent 

 discharges of the above-named black foetid 

 stools, the animal frequently falls a victim 

 in a comparatively short time — not longer 

 than two or three days. 



Por the cure of inflamed liver, first bleed to 

 the full extent of the powers of the animal; 

 and, if necessary, repeat in five or six hours. 

 Well blister the sides of the belly ; and if 

 costiveness should appear, back-rake, and 

 throw up clysters of salt and water every 

 three hours ; then take of — 



Blue Pill 2 drachms. 



Cape Aloes 3 do. 



Form into a ball with honey ; 

 and repeat every six hours until it operates. 



In cases where purging has commenced, the 

 bleeding should be more moderate and sparing, 

 unless the inflammation run high ; in which 

 case discretion must be the guide in the mode 

 of treatment to be adopted, for a repetition cf 



