. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. BRONCHITIS. SI Can only be mistaken for colic (which see). In colic there are times of ease and pain, but never in this disease. Causes. Exposure to cold, drinking cold water in great quantities when hot, calculi, or hair balls in the bowels, costiveness, diarrhoea, ana as a sequel to colic, lead and other poisons (which see). Treatment The first thing to be done is to lessen or destroy pain. Give a large dose of the tinctu
. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. BRONCHITIS. SI Can only be mistaken for colic (which see). In colic there are times of ease and pain, but never in this disease. Causes. Exposure to cold, drinking cold water in great quantities when hot, calculi, or hair balls in the bowels, costiveness, diarrhoea, ana as a sequel to colic, lead and other poisons (which see). Treatment The first thing to be done is to lessen or destroy pain. Give a large dose of the tincture of aconite root, say thirty drops, to be repeated in two hours. Apply blankets wrung out of boiling water to the belly, and renew them in about twenty minutes. Give injections of warm not hot water, soap, and a handful of table salt every half hour. Continue the treatment while there is enough strength remaining. Bleeding will only insure and hasten ceath, and purgatives are too slow to act—the horse is either dead, or will be before any response can be had from them. Brain Diseases—The brain and its coverings, or membranes, are subject to inflammations of every degree. (See Apoplexy and Stag- gers.) Breaking Down.—^This accident means or consists in rupture of the tendons and ligaments, and occurs at once when the horse is at full speed. Symptoms. The horse stops suddenly, or porhaps stumbles and falls ; gets up but stands on his fetlocks, the toe of the foot turned ap, and the sole of the foot, as it were, looking at you. Treatment. If the fetlock comes entirely to the ground, not much can be done; and when it does not, contraction of the leg takes place, and requires division of the tendon. (See Tendeotomy.) Breathing Short.—This is a symptom of irritation, inflammation, debility, weakness, oppressions of every kind, and fever (which "-^e). Breeze Flies.—This is the fly supposed, but erroneously, to be the one that deposits the ova or eggs, which generat
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