. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. m TYPHUS (;ONTAGIOSUS BOUM. i8i gall bladder is swollen to several times its natural size, and filled with a dark, yellowish-brown fluid ; the food in the stomach is in a hard, dry and caked condition, with no progress made towards digestion; the stomach is friable and easily torn. VVe would here add that though the spleen be enlarged, heavy, and filled with blood, it is not a sufficient reason for the Commissioner of Agric
. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. m TYPHUS (;ONTAGIOSUS BOUM. i8i gall bladder is swollen to several times its natural size, and filled with a dark, yellowish-brown fluid ; the food in the stomach is in a hard, dry and caked condition, with no progress made towards digestion; the stomach is friable and easily torn. VVe would here add that though the spleen be enlarged, heavy, and filled with blood, it is not a sufficient reason for the Commissioner of Agriculture to call the disease " Spleenic Fever;" it is the effect of a cause, and not the disease itself. Treatment. Give'large doses of epsom or glauber salts, dissolved in great quantities of molasses water. If no relief follows in twenty-four hours, repeat the dose, bearing in mind all the whili that great quantifies of fluid or cold water is a means to overcome the dry condition of the impacted stomach. Indeed, the cure has a good deal of a mechanical nature about it, for large drenches of water with the salts do not only assist their action, but in many cases wash and dissolve the dry feed into a soft mass or pulp, which will readily pass away, and the ] )or beast be relieved from pain and cured. Suspect this disease when (j curring after a good grass growing spring, succeeded by a dry, scorching summer, con- verting grass into spindles containing no moisture, and little nutritive properties. Throat Diseases.—(See Bronchitis.) Thrush.—(See Epizootic Aphtha.) Tongue of the Ox.—We speak of the tongue of the ox not for the purpose of referring to its disease, for that has already been done in speaking of aphtha. Our design is simply to explain the difference in appearance between the tongue of the horse and that of the ox; for occasionally they are seen side by side in provision stores and other places, and all sold as the tongue of the ox or cow. The appearan
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