The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . ached, and thefore-feet are sent forward, so that the animal treads on his heels;and, when compelled to move, he endeavors to throw the weightof Ms body on the hind legs. He is thirsty and feverish, but hasno appetite. All appearances about him indicate that he suffersgreat pain. When a hand is placed upon the fore-feet, they feelunnaturally hot. Such are the most prominent symptoms of\aminitis, or
The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . ached, and thefore-feet are sent forward, so that the animal treads on his heels;and, when compelled to move, he endeavors to throw the weightof Ms body on the hind legs. He is thirsty and feverish, but hasno appetite. All appearances about him indicate that he suffersgreat pain. When a hand is placed upon the fore-feet, they feelunnaturally hot. Such are the most prominent symptoms of\aminitis, or fever in the feet LAMENESS, FROM VARIOUS CAUSES. 351 Treatment.—The principal objects to be accomplished are, to!ieep the feet cool by frequent sponging with cold water; next, thebowels must be kept loose my means of bran-mashes, or, if neces-sary, a dose of Glauber salts—dose, twelve ounces, dissolved in apint of warm water, to which add half a gill of syrup—and anoccasional enema of soap-suds, and also a few doses of fluid extractof gelseminum, say two drachms night and morning. This is thekind of treatment that the author has found most successful dur-ing a long period of EXTREMITY OF ONE OF THE FOEH HUBS. VUPkASATioK.—a, Tb« region of the coronet; b. The sensitive laminee; e. The point of thetoe, d, The quarters; e. The heel; /, The sole; g. The solar border. Man J who treat such diseases are apt to do too much. Youatt,and several other writers, recommend repeated bleedings, blisters,and purges, and even tell us to bleed in the chronic stage. Thisis all wrong, and such outrageous treatment is almost sure to endin suppuration, founder, or ruin. (See article on Inflammation.)The patient must be kept at rest, and, if he should lie down, mustnot be disturbed. I never remove the shoes, because the patientis in so much pain that he can not stand on the frog or sole, andthe shoes are a protection to the frog. 852 dadds veterinary medicine and suroert. Sand-cra
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