Hippopathology: a treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse; with their methods of cure, Volume 3 |
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acute glanders affected afterwards amaurosis animal apoplexy appears aqueous humour attack become believe blisters blood blood-letting body bone brain buds cataract catarrh cause chronic glanders circumstance cold Coleman colour commonly condition conjunctiva consequence constitutional contagion contagious cornea course cure D'Arboval discharge disease disorder doses drachms Dupuy existed fact farcy-buds farrier favour glandered horses glanders and farcy glanders or farcy head hind infection inflammation inflammatory inoculation instances irritation Lafosse Leblanc lens limb lungs lymphatic glands lymphatic system lymphatic vessels mare matter medicine morbid mucous membrane muscles nasal nature nerves nose nostrils observed occasions opacity operation ophthalmia opinion paraplegia patient periodic ophthalmia poison produced proved pupil pustules regarded remedies seat septum nasi shew side sinuses spasm stable stage staggers sub-acute submaxillary submaxillary glands swelling symptoms tetanus tion treatment tubercles tumefaction tumour ulceration vessels veterinary surgeon virus vitreous humour wound
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Page 258 - In the expedition to Quiberon, the horses had not been long on board the transports, before it became necessary to shut down the hatchways (we believe for a few hours only) ; the consequence of this was, that some of them were suffocated, and that all the rest were disembarked either glandered or farcied*.
Page 249 - Chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship, THAT IS TO SAY, THE OFFICE OF THE BREEDER, OF THE RIDER, OF THE KEEPER, AND OF THE FERRER.
Page 22 - Physick, of Philadelphia, first suggested its performance in hydrophobia ; and Dr. Marshall Hall has recently advised a trial of it in cases of apoplexy : his words are, " in apoplexy from congestion, I am persuaded that the fatal event might be averted by the timely adoption of this measure. The patient dies of asphyxia, and of an asphyxia which tracheotomy would, I believe, prevent ; or of coma, which blood-letting would cure.
Page 158 - ... in another animal (of the equine or human species), and which discharge is sooner or later accompanied by vascular injection and chancrous ulceration of the schneiderian membrane, by tumefaction of the submaxillary lymphatic glands, and by farcy.
Page 104 - Mr. Wathen was of opinion that blacksmiths, and all mechanics who work near large fires, were more subject to cataracts than other persons, and he mentions that he had had two patients who were instantly seized with cataract, at the very time they were thus employed.t Diagnosis.
Page 240 - A glandered horse may contaminate the air of a stable to such a degree, that horses breathing the same air may become infected with the disease, although the infected may never come in contact with the infecting horse. Fortunately glanders is not so infectious as some other diseases to which horses are liable, otherwise the breed would soon become extinct.
Page 202 - IT), the horse is an animal destined by Nature to breathe an atmosphere of the purest kind ; in proof of the salubrity of which to him, suffer him to remain in his native fields, and he will live long and ail nothing.
Page 301 - This is at once declarative of disease in the lymphatic vessels — of the presence of farcy. " Tracing the cord upward from its place of origin, which commonly is above the hock, the hand is carried into the groin, and there discovers a lobulated tumor, a swelling of the inguinal glands, which may, without impropriety, be called a bubo ; sometimes, however, the bubo does not make its appearance until after the full development of the cord. " Farcy does not at all times commence its attack in this...
Page 10 - Soon after my father entered the service of the Ordnance, at Woolwich, it became the custom there to turn horses, who had become low in condition, and stale upon their legs from work, into the marshes to recruit their strength. During the months of July, August, and September, no case was more common than an attack of staggers among those horses ; which my father attributed to the luxuriant pasture they were suddenly turned into (which invariably loaded them with fat, and consequently plethorised...