. The modern horse doctor. Treating on disease and lameness in horses . e that the subject has been accustomed to, instantly withdraws from thebody a just proportion of its caloric; and as this is taken away, so in proportionthere is an assault made on the regularity of the functional exercise : althoughit may not amount to disease, yet the system is more exposed to other hurtfulagents. The effect of incompatible degrees of cold is to condense and contract thedermoid tissue, to embarrass the exhalations on the surface. When incompati-ble degrees of cold are often reapplied, and followed sudden
. The modern horse doctor. Treating on disease and lameness in horses . e that the subject has been accustomed to, instantly withdraws from thebody a just proportion of its caloric; and as this is taken away, so in proportionthere is an assault made on the regularity of the functional exercise : althoughit may not amount to disease, yet the system is more exposed to other hurtfulagents. The effect of incompatible degrees of cold is to condense and contract thedermoid tissue, to embarrass the exhalations on the surface. When incompati-ble degrees of cold are often reapplied, and followed suddenly by heat, thetissues acquire an increase of sensibility, by which they are more likely to beacted on by a subsequent exposure, and indeed to other exciting causes. Hencearises a state of predisposition, and cold in this instance becomes merely sremote cause of disease. But remote causes rarely produce active disease without some exciting cause, and on a repetition of the exposure to «old, it majLteconie the exciting cause.— Gallup. L20 THE MULiKiCN HUKiE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 121 also become acrimonious, from perverted function in the skin andlungs, and thus set up disease in the bladder. The symptoms of this disorder somewhat resemble those ofnephritis : the patient will be seen to make frequent attempts tovoid urine, at the same time suffering from pain, and only suc-ceeding in passing a few drops at a time. The usual feverisheymptoms are always present while the parts are inflamed. Treatment. — There is very little chance of removing this die-order by the fleam, nor can it be removed by diuretics: we mustendeavor to establish an equal circulation throughout the entiresystem, by warmth externally, and relaxing medicines giveninternally. The vapor bath, which has been so successfully intro-duced in human practice, and to a limited extent in veterinary, isan efficient relaxant of the tissues, and promotes both exhalationand absorp
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