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CHAPTER XXVIII. 



DESCRIPTION OF DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS, WITH HINTS ON EMERGENCIES. 



BY WILLIAM PRITCHARD, LATIC PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND EQUINE PATHOLOGY AT THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE, 



LONDON. 



Introduction — Injuiies to Blood-vessels — Wounds — Broken Knees — ^Wounds to the Foot and Coronet — Prick or Stab in Shoeing — 

 Nailbound — Picking up Nails, and Sharp Flint Wounds — Overreach — Treads — Saddle Galls — Injuries to the Eye — Hereditary 

 Ophthalmia — Diseases of the Skin : Surfeit, Mange, Nettle Rash, Urticaria, Mud Fever, Ringworm— Cracked Heels — Sprains 

 of Tendons and Ligaments : Curb, Thoro'pin, Bog Spavin— Advantages of the Use of Woollen Bandages — Capped Hock and 

 Capped Elbow — Swelled Legs — Diseases of the Foot: Thrush, Canker, Corn — Benefit of Leather Soles — Sandcrack — • 

 Laminitis — Navicular Disease — Neurotomy — Quittor — Pole Evil — Fistula of Withers — Seedy Toe — Lampass — Quidding — 

 Strangles — Common Cold and Sore Throat — Chronic Cough — How to give a Ball — Influenza — Pleurisy — Inflamed Lungs 

 ■ — Bronchitis — Congestion of the Lungs — Roaring and Whistling — Glanders and Farcy — Indigestion— Colic — How to take 

 a Horse's Pulse — Diarrhoea — Worms affecting the Intestines — Diuresis, or Profuse Staing — Retention of Unne — 

 Megrims — Tetanus — To Chlorolorm a Horse— List of Medicines and Instruments. 



When the horse is suffering from iUness or from the result of accident, the only wise 

 course to pursue is to send for a veterinary surgeon, whose profession it is to know the 

 structure of the animal, to be able to ascertain the true cause and extent of the ailment, and 

 to apply the most appropriate remedies or perform the necessary operations. It may happen 

 that the services of a veterinary surgeon cannot be had, or that some considerable time 

 must elapse before such aid can be secured ; under such circumstances, the following brief 

 comments and suggestions upon some of the maladies of more frequent occurrence to the 

 viscera and limbs of the animal may prove worth perusal and consideration, for the purpose 

 of guiding the amateur until more reliable assistance can be obtained ; but I would strongly 

 advise all who possess and value their horses not to rely upon even the best of information 

 which can be obtained from books when the experience of a practical veterinary surgeon can be 

 brought to bear ; for some affections, to an ordinary observer, are so alike in the manner in 

 which they present themselves, that nothing short of a thorough knowledge of them will allow 

 of a correct recognition ; and in very many instances a mistake in the nature of the malady 

 will lead to very serious, if not fatal, results. It is a well-known fact that, even with the young 

 man who has devoted years of study to the scientific matters in connection with the veterinary 

 art, a period of time for practical acquaintance with diseases and their phenomena is required, 

 before such an individual can become thoroughly efficient; and if this is so with those who 

 to some extent at all events, are educated, what possible chance cjn there be for the individual 

 who is absolutely ignorant of the greater portion of the structure of the animal and of the 

 simplest of the vital functions ? 



I shall deal firstly with such affections as not unfrequently occur to the limbs and outer 

 surface of the body, and subsequently some of those of importance happening to the internal 

 organs. 



INJURIES TO BLOOD-VESSELS. 



Accidents giving rise to division of arteries and veins not unfrequently occur, and in 

 some instances the bleeding which follows is so profuse as to jeopardise the animal's life. In 



