CHAPTER XVI. 



POISONING. 



Iw XKTSBMAL P0X80V.- 



-11. POISONING FROM STIWOS. 



-in. POISONED SEW. 



I. Internal Poisoning. 



The cases of internal poisoning are more frequent, especially with 

 horses, than is generally supposed. Among the most common are those 

 arising from drastic or powerful doses, blindly given by the ignorant, 

 cither in disease, or from some effect sought to be produced upon the 

 general health — to make the coat blooming, cause champing of the bit 

 and frothing at the mouth, or to excite the animal spirits. Of these, 

 strong purgatives, diuretics and arsenic are the most common. 



A ROR8K SCFFEUING KKOM DKA8TIC POISON. 



Other causes are from eating poisonous plants, either in the hay or In 

 Ihe pasture, the ergot of rye and other grain ; ergot sometimes attacks the 



