The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 PUNCTURED WOUNDS —PURGING pony, to thirty-five, in a heavy horse, when in health. In cases of sickness and fever these figures are increased. The Taking the Pulse. best way to take the pulse of a horse is to place the fingers inside the jowl, as in the accompanying illustration. Punct
The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 PUNCTURED WOUNDS —PURGING pony, to thirty-five, in a heavy horse, when in health. In cases of sickness and fever these figures are increased. The Taking the Pulse. best way to take the pulse of a horse is to place the fingers inside the jowl, as in the accompanying illustration. Punctured Wounds.—See Bleeding, Cuts. Pupil.—The dark, circular spot in the centre of the eye, which increases in size in a dim light and becomes smaller in a strong one, (See Eyes, Iris.) Purges. — Opening medicines of various degrees of strength. (See Administering Physic, Medicines, Prescrip- tio7is.) Purging may be the result of aperient medicine having been administered, of poison, or of a sudden change of food which produces diarrhoea. It is necessary, therefore, to endeavour to ascertain the cause of purging, and if poison is suspected the veterinarian should be sent for. (See Diarrhoea, Poisons, Presc7'iptions.) 262
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