Chapter XII: Part II: Diseases (3)

[31] This will be found almost a specific; it is recommended by Mr Mayhew, and is said to have originated with Mr Woodyer, V.S., at Paddington. Professor Dick is also reputed to have been very successful in the treatment of this disease, by the use of small and repeated doses of iodine or iodide of potassium.

[32] This treatment is recommended by Mr Mayhew.

[33] A few of the low class of horsedealers are very clever at passing off a cribber or wind-sucker.

I have known cases where one might remain in a stable for hours with a cribber and not detect him. By keeping a continual watch over the animal and thrashing him directly he attempts to crib, he has been taught to beware of transgressing in this style in the presence of any one, and thus even a veterinary surgeon may be deceived, for he is not supposed to lose his time looking after such details of trickery.

[34] For example, an animal is in nearly a hopeless state from inflammation of the lungs and pleura, perhaps as a complication of distemper. Suddenly there is an amelioration in the symptoms; the hurried breathing resumes the characteristics of ordinary respiration—the owner, or veterinary surgeon in attendance, pronounces the patient to be out of danger—the improvement is regarded as almost miraculous. But in about twenty-four hours, often less, the horse is observed to move with difficulty in the stable; if he lies down, he is disinclined to get up; when standing, the fore feet are kept considerably more in advance than usual, the hind ones far forward under the body, so that they may as much as possible relieve the fore feet and legs from the superincumbent weight. In aggravated cases, as the heels of the fore feet are the parts which bear the most weight in progression, the horse, when forced to walk, which he can only accomplish with great difficulty, elevates the toe at every step, bringing the heel, instead of it, to the ground. The horse is then suffering from acute laminitis, or what is more generally in horse-parlance termed “founder.”

[35] Prepared and sold by Mr H. R. Stevens, V.S., 8A Park Lane, London, W., and all chemists.

[36] The use of the clyster syringe by unskilled hands is _very dangerous_—serious injury to the rectum being the common result; therefore great caution should be used to insert the pipe (well greased) slowly and not too high up the channel.

INDEX.

Page

Absorbents 159

Absorbent system 106

Acidity 160

Aconite, tincture of 161

Age, to judge of 3

Ale and porter 24, 37

Alteratives 159

Ambling or pacing 34

American stabling 18

American carriages 74

Arabian horses 95

Arnica lotion 157, 158

Arsenic 124, 160

Auction 6, 89

Axle-boxes 74

Backing 71

Back-raking 122

Back, sore 38, 151

Ball, manner of giving 104

Bandaging 14

Bark of oak 159

Beans and pease 20, 21

Bearing-rein 63, 141

Bedding 9, 10, 27, 38

Belladonna 127

Belly-band, caution 59

Bits 38, 62, 70

Bladder, inflammation of 127, 159

Bleeding 111

Blinkers 62, 70

Blisters and absorbents 159, 160

Blood 94

Board ship 24, 104

Boot of leather 19

Bran mash 22

Break carriage 5, 30

Breaking or training 29

Breaking to harness 30

Breastplate 48

Breeding 1, 93

Bridling 38

Britching 58

Broken knees 141

Broken wind 119

Bronchitis 113

Bruised oats 21

Brushing 78

Buying 6

Calkins or cogs 80, 82

Calomel 125

Canker 136

Cantering 33, 52

Capped hock 145

Caprice 90

Carriages 73, 75

Carrots 23

Casting 102

Cavalry remounts 47

Cavesson 33

Chaff 10, 154

Chain fastenings 17

Chalk 15, 154, 160

Chifney bit 42

Chloride of zinc 158

Chloroform 102

Clap of the back sinew 143

Cleaning in-doors 12, 13

Climate 95

Clipping 16

Clothing 18

Clysters 159

Clysters, danger of using 15, 159

Cold and influenza 110

Colic and gripes 108, 121

Colic drench 159

Collar 60

Colour 2

Contagion 26, 112, 116

Contractors 25

Corns 79, 131, 140

Costiveness 123

Cough 115

Coupling-rein 56

Cracked and greasy heels 136

Crib-biting 153

Croton-oil 108, 159

Crupper 46, 63

Curb 145

Dandriff 14

Dealers 6, 7

Diabetes 123

Diabetes drench 159

Diarrhœa or dysentery 120, 159

Digestive organs, diseases of 120

Diseases 101

Disinfectants 113, 161

Diuretics, and danger of 126

Dogs and cats 11

Dragoons 36, 47, 48, 50

Drainage 8

Draught or traction 58, 72

Drench, way of giving 105

Driving 65

Dumb jockey 30

Dysentery 120, 159

Exercising 31, 107

Exhibitions 94, 97

Eyes, sore 110

Fairs 7

Falling in harness 70

Farcy 26, 107, 147

Febrifuges 117

Feeding 20

Feeding on board ship 24

Feet, diseases of 127

Fencing 53

Fever of the feet, or laminitis 132, 133, 155

Fits 117, 153

Flooring 10, 143

Fomentations 146

Foot, construction of 128

Foot-stopping 13, 38

French horses 1, 2, 96

Frosting 80

Gas water 146

Girthing 44

Glanders 26, 109

Glycerine 158

Goulard lotion 158

Grazing 26

Grey powder 115

Gripes 108, 121

Grooming 12

Grooms’ doctoring 12

Grooms’ requisites 15

Gruel, how to make 161

Hack for draught 5

Hack to ride 3

Halter-cast 17

Haltering 16

Hames 58, 61

Harnessing 56

Harness-room 56

Hay 21

Head, diseases of 109

Head-stall 16

Heels, cracked or greasy 136

Hidebound 150

Hills, to ascend or descend 67, 68

Hood 18

Horse shows 94, 97

Hunter 5, 94

Inflammation of bladder 125, 159

Inflammation of kidneys 125

Inflammation of lungs 114, 155

Influenza 110

Indian gram 22

Iodine ointment 159

Irish hunters 93

Jibbers 71, 87

Jumping 53

Kicking in harness 59, 71, 85

Kicking in stable 85

Kicking-strap 31, 59

Kidneys, inflammation of 125

Knee-caps 19, 31

Knees, broken 141

Lameness 55, 78, 128, 140

Lampas 119

Latches, danger of 10

Lateral cartilage, disease of 135

Laudanum 121, 159

Laxatives 158

Leather boot 19

Leather soles 82

Legs, diseases of 127

Light 9

Liniments 158

Linseed mash 22

Linseed-oil 108, 158

Litter 9, 135

Liver, diseases of 125

Logs to head, tie 17

Loose-boxes 9

Lotions 141, 158

Loungeing or ringing 33, 84

Lungs, inflammation of 114, 155

Mallenders and sallenders 144

Mane 14

Mange 150

Mangers 10

Martingals 40

Mash, to make 22

Megrims 153

Mercurial ointment 141, 160

Mercury.—See Calomel.

Metastasis 155

Mounting of lady in side-saddle 55

Mustard blister 160

Navicular disease 7, 134

Neck, sore 31

Nitre 117, 126

Nose, discharge from, or nasal gleet 110, 116

Noseband 42, 63

Numna or sweat-cloth 38

Oak bark 159

Oats, bruised 21

Ointments 141, 160

Operations 102

Operations, slight 104

Opium, tincture of 121, 123

Out of doors, cleaning 12, 13

Over-reach or tread 140

Pace, generally considered 34, 96

Partitions 10

Pavement 9, 10, 11, 143

Pease 20, 22

Peat or tan as bedding 10, 27

Phosphoric acid 124, 159

Picker 13, 15

Pole-chains and swinging-bars 73

Poll-evil 17, 117

Porter and ale 24, 37

Poultices 160

Private purchase 7, 90

Prizes 94, 97

Public troughs 26

Pulse 109

Purges 108, 158, 159

Purging 106

Purging, to stop 108, 121

Putting to, in draught 57

Quittor 135

Race-horses 1, 6

Racing laws 97

Racks and mangers 10

Rarey’s system 28, 102

Rearing up 52, 86

Restoratives, in work 24, 37

Riding 49

Ringing or loungeing 33

Ring-bone 144

Ringworm 148

Rollers 19, 152

Roughing and frosting 80

Runaways 71

Saddling 43

Sallenders 144

Salt 15, 125, 154, 160

Sand-cracks 138

Saving-collar 30, 61

Sedative 161

Selecting 2

Selling 89

Setons 152, 156

Sex 3

Shape 1, 3, 5, 6, 94

Sheet, shape 18

Shelly hoofs 137

Shipboard 24, 104

Shivering fits 117

Shoeing 75

Shying 88

Side-saddle, for mounting lady to 55

Side-saddle and girths 44, 45

Singeing 15

Sitfasts 151

Size 1, 2, 72, 95

Skin diseases 148, 149, 150

Smelling, sense of 89

Solitude 11, 93

Sore back 38, 151

Sore eyes 110

Sore heels 136

Sore mouth 24, 158

Sore neck 31

Sore throat 118

Sore withers 38, 151

Soundness 5

Spavin, blood 146

Spavin, bone 144

Splinter and swinging bars 73

Splints 142

Stable requisites 15

Stabling 8

Staggers 153

Staling, profuse 123

Stalls 9

Steaming the head 112

Stevens’s ointment 142, 145, 159

Stirrup irons and leathers 45, 46

Stonehenge 11, 30

Stones on the road 13, 40, 55

Stopping feet 13, 38, 76, 134

Strain of back sinew 11, 14, 82, 143

Strangles 118

Straw 9, 10

String-halt 145

Stubbornness 71, 87

Stumbling 40, 52

Surfeit 147, 149

Sweating 32

Synovia 141, 143, 146

Tar 15, 135, 138, 140, 158

Teeth 3, 24, 116

Terret-pad and belly-band 59, 61

Tinctures, administration of 158

Tips 83

Thorough-pin 146

Throat-lash or band 43

Throat, sore 118

Thrush 15, 131, 135

Traces 57

Training 28

Travelling 36, 84

Troop-horses 47, 50

Trotting 34

Turpentine 157, 158

Twitch 75, 104

Unnerving 7, 134

Urinary organs, diseases of 125, 127, 159

Ventilation 8, 18, 102, 109, 112, 115, 118

Vice 84

Vinegar 144, 158

Walking exercise 32

Warranty 5, 7

Water, externally 12, 136

Water-dressing 160

Water farcy 148

Watering 25

Wheels 73

Whip 65

Wind-galls 14, 143

Wind-sucking 153

Withers, sore 38, 151

Work 33

Worms 28, 124, 160

Worm-powder 124

Wounds 152

Wrick or wrench 144

Yellows 125

Young horses 94, 97

Zinc, chloride of 158

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