The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ver,then treat as a fever locally and generally. Give as sedativesaconite and nitre internally, with cooling applications locally tothe feet. If the inflammation is so extreme as to cause a de-struction of the suspensory power of the laminae, then it is advis- LAMINITIS
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ver,then treat as a fever locally and generally. Give as sedativesaconite and nitre internally, with cooling applications locally tothe feet. If the inflammation is so extreme as to cause a de-struction of the suspensory power of the laminae, then it is advis- LAMINITIS, OE FOUNDEE. 835 ablo to bleed quickly. If purgatives are advisable, give calomeland aloes in the proportion of 1 to 2 drachms of calomel to 4 to 7of aloes. In a conversation with Dr. Walton (house surgeon of Co-lumbia Veterinary College) on this subject, he advised treatmentas below, and the better to explain it, referred to treatment pur-sued in the management of a very bad case, as follows:— The horse had been driven through a rain-storm twenty miles ;was stiff in all four feet, and unable to stand. The shoes were re-moved, and poultices applied to the feet. At first, aconite 15 drops,then 10 drops an hour were given for the first 3 or 4 hours. Atthe same time, as the horse was in considerable pain, hypodermic in-. FiG. 743.—Abnormal condition of foot caused by Laminitis. jections of about two grains morphine twice a day, 2 oz. dose ni-trate of potass four times a day, were given. Water Avas givenfreely. He recovered in four or five days. His temperature was105°. As soon as the fever commenced to abate, the aconite wasreduced to five drops about every three hours. Prof. Williams says :— Should there be much fever, I know of no treatment so ef-fectual as aconite in repeated doses, giving 20 drops of the tinctureof the root every two hours in water, until the pulse decidedly the pain is very severe, I advise giving attention to this fiistby administeiing one o
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