. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). TETANUS, OE LOCKJAW. 929 As the disease advances, the muscles all over the neck and body become stiff and rigid, and the legs have the appea
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). TETANUS, OE LOCKJAW. 929 As the disease advances, the muscles all over the neck and body become stiff and rigid, and the legs have the appearance of of a four-footed stool. The animal has little or no power to move. For the first few days the teeth remain apart, but as the dis- ease advances, the muscles of the jaw become so contracted as to bring them close together. Hence the name locked jaw. The bowels are constipated, the urine scanty, and passed with difficulty. The pulse is usually not very high, but is easily raised by excitement; he is very nervous, starts and quivers when any one approaches him. His appetite remains good, and from inability to feed, his hunger amounts to starvation; he will make every effort to suck up gruel or fluids, when, from the fix- idity of the jaws, he is un- able to masticate. The breathing, at first not much altered, becomes difiicult and loud. The symptoms generally reach their cli- max about the third or fourth day. The Causes of this dis- ease are numerous. It com- monly occurs in conse- F'"- 803.—A test for lockjaw. quence of wounds, when it is called traumatic tetanus; in which case it is not developed until about the period the wound is con- sidered healed; it may occur from causes not apparent, when it is distinguished as idiopathic tetanus; but it is generally produced from a wounded nerve or bunch of nerves, pricking the tail, and very often from docking, punctured wounds in the feet from glass or nails, and sometimes from severe exposure to cold, and "I have
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