862 STABLE MANUAL AND HORSE DOCTOR 



no such fear prevents the use of liquor ammonige in the 

 manner before directed when treating of enteritis ; neither 

 can any objection be formed to the application of a simple 

 mustard poultice, which may be renewed every two hours ; 

 and if a newly-stripped sheepskin be laid upon the place 

 the liquor ammonise or mustard poultice has occupied, the 

 activity of each will be increased. 



In acute pain give belladonna extract, half a drachm, and 

 crude opium, two drachms, thrice a day, in linseed meal 

 and hone}^ Without giving violent sudorifics, v/hich would 

 increase the action of the heart and arteries, we should 

 attempt to moderately determine the blood to the skin and 

 the limbs by clothing, friction, and bandaging up the 

 extremities ; as well also by nauseating the stomach with 

 white hellebore. Injections of warm linseed tea may be 

 thrown up every two hours, and a pail of the same placed 

 before the horse ; he will want no other provision during 

 the attack. Diluting liquors are among the best means of 

 lessening inflammation, for which reason a pail of tepid 

 gruel should be kept constantly in the manger. These 

 cases, however, generally last some time, during the whole 

 of which the efforts should be continued, and exertion only 

 relax as death, from known and well-marked signs, appears 

 certain. 



Percivall says : " Should the inflammation not abate, keep 

 the bowels soluble and the skin supple by the following: 



Purging mass .... 1 drachm. 



Tartarised antimony ... 1 drachm. 



Carbonate of soda ... 3 drachms. 



Mucilage to make a ball. If this produces purging, 



reduce the purging mass to half a drachm, or discontinue." 



The general symptoms of kidney disease are foetid, bloody, 

 or filamentous urine ; a small irregular pulse ; recurrence of 

 sweats, especially in the flanks ; these ceasing, the patient 

 falls, and convulsions close the scene. The gait of the horse 

 and his wide mode of standing are characteristics of these 

 disorders. The animal, too, can bear no pressure on the 

 loins. In some cases he will resist in evident agony any 

 attempt to press his back, at others he will sit down on his 

 hinder parts like a dog, and there is obstinate retention of 

 both urine and faeces. 



