146 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Treatment. — The plan to be adopted in this class of 

 poisons in the horse, will be bj giving 'large quantities 

 of the white of eggs, milk, linseed oil; and remove the 

 poison as speedily as possible by giving large quantities 

 of linseed oil, say two quarts. The horse cannot vomit; 

 hence, there is a difficulty in a prompt evacuation of the 

 stomach. If the pain be great, give aconite to subdue 

 it, and to keep down inflammation and sympathetic fever. 



(2.) Narcotic Poisons. — Poisons which act on the 

 brain and nervous centres, producing stupidity or coma. 



Treatment. — Give four grains of strychnia nux vo- 

 mica in a few pints of gruel made with vinegar. Keep 

 the horse walking around, and ^place chopped ice in a 

 bag, and put it on the forehead. 



(3.) Narcotic Acid Poisons. — Poisons acting as the 

 above, and causing irritation, inflammation, fever, and 

 pain. Examples of this class are, nux vomica and vera- 

 tria. 



Treatment. — Aconite will not only relieve the pain, 

 but is an excellent antidote for strychnia, and for aco- 

 nite, strychnia may be given with advantage in cases of 

 this variety of poisoning. 



Poisoning from lead and copper is most frequent 

 in the country, and in the vicinity of lead and copper- 

 smelting works, and in pastures where manure from large 

 towns and cities is spread, and on farms where the water is 

 conveyed in leaden pipes, and kept in troughs and cis- 

 terns lined with lead. Pieces of lime and nails, or 

 scraps of iron finding their way into leaden troughs, 

 cause oxidation of the lead, forming sugar of lead, — a bad 

 poison. Not long since, heavy damages were awarded 

 to a farmer who had lost several head of cows from lead 

 poisoning, from the spray of leaden bullets shot against 



