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 . Fig. 749, -Infeiior view of pedal bone. Lastreferred to in text. When there is severe inflammation of the feet (laminitis) thePeriosteum (membrane covering the bone) and the pedal become involved, when it is termed Peditis. This is indicated by the horse
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 . Fig. 749, -Infeiior view of pedal bone. Lastreferred to in text. When there is severe inflammation of the feet (laminitis) thePeriosteum (membrane covering the bone) and the pedal become involved, when it is termed Peditis. This is indicated by the horse showing intense pain, gettingup and lying down often. No local treatment seems to check thestructural changes that go on ; it will run from one to twomonths; the horse has a Iavenous appetite all the time, and as arule does not lose flesh. If temperature rises, give sedativetreatment,—opium, aconite with nitrate of potassa in small doses CATAERH. ^41. Fig. 750.—Showing effect upon the bone ofpressure of toe-calk and rasping hoof. (not over 1 ounce a day divided into two parts and given inwater). AVhen tlie temperature gets down to 102°, stop internaltreatment, and treat locallyabout as follows : It is nec-essary to have a stall witha soft bottom as saw-dust,ashes, etc. Occasionally itis best to dampen the ashesa little during the day, andrake them up so as to forma yielding body to the a little bedding overit at night, and also duringthe day to give the horse achance to lie down. Treatment.—Apply cool-ing applications, such ascold swabs ; that is, coverthe feet with two or three thicknesses of blankets, and keep wetwith cold water. After the acute symptoms subside, point is to lower the fever, and check the flow of blood tothe feet. Catarrh. Catarrh, or cold in the head, is an affection of the liningmembrane of the nasal chambers and cavaties of the head. Itconsists in a congested or inflamed state of th
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