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 . the application of a blister. I think it may therefore be accepted that extei-nal irritants•—whether they be simply rubefacients, producing a mere redness * This cut belongs in article on windgalls, page 778; but on account of not be-ing ayailable when tlie matter for t
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 . the application of a blister. I think it may therefore be accepted that extei-nal irritants•—whether they be simply rubefacients, producing a mere redness * This cut belongs in article on windgalls, page 778; but on account of not be-ing ayailable when tlie matter for that article was put in type, it is inserted was furnished by John Picynders & Co., Manufacturers of Surgical and VeterinaryInstruments, etc., 303 Fourth Avenue, N. 1030 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. of tlio skin, vesicants or blisters, Avhicli cause elevations of the cnti-cle hy fluid underneath it, or cauterization and setons, which pro-mote the sujjpurativo action—remove lameness by assisting naturein a process of repair. < Ruhpfacients may bo employed in the less severe forms oflameness, in sj^i^iiif* of tendons, or in slight affection of joints, alongwith rest and fomentations, after the more acute symptoms havepassed uwaj. It is usual to apply blisters in all cases of some standing, Avhenorganic changes in the parts involved are suspected. Before a blis-ter is applied, the hair should be clipped from the part, which, ifdirty, ought to be washed, and Avhen dry, the blister to be appliedAvith smart friction for about ten minutes. To obtain the full effectof a blister, a quantit} of ointment is to be thickly laid on after therubbijig ill is completed, The best agent is cantharides, in the form of acetate, tinctuie,or ointment, to the limb
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