The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . fetid ; and in some casesa dry, short cough. The animal becomes poor in flesh andspirits. Various modes of treatment have been adopted with but littlebenefit. The remedies which have become most popular aretartar emetic, calomel, turpentine, an infusion of Indian pink,arsenic, green vitriol, &c. That which has usually been foundmost successful in the authors practice is to give one of the fol-lowing powders
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . fetid ; and in some casesa dry, short cough. The animal becomes poor in flesh andspirits. Various modes of treatment have been adopted with but littlebenefit. The remedies which have become most popular aretartar emetic, calomel, turpentine, an infusion of Indian pink,arsenic, green vitriol, &c. That which has usually been foundmost successful in the authors practice is to give one of the fol-lowing powders for three successive nights; of calomel threedrachms; of tartar emetic one drachm; mix and divide intothree powders. Twenty-four hours after, give the followingpurgative ball: of Barbadoes aloes six drachms; pulverizedginger two drachms ; and pulverized gentian root one of turpentine in doses of two ounces has been very highlyrecommended by some authors; but this the author regards asft dangerous remedy, from its tendency to produce inflammation BOTS. 2,65 of the stomdch or bowels. Too many horses have been killedby its destructive ageucy to render its use BOTS. These are the larvae of the gad-fly. During the summermonths, when the horse is at grass, the parent fly is seen busilyengaged in depositing its eggs upon thehairs of the animal in such places as areeasily reached by his mouth. This seemsto be an instinctive feature in this legs, shoulders, and body are the partsselected for this purpose. The gad-fly isseen hovering in an upright position when ^^^^^^^ gad-flt oe to deposit her egg; she then darts upon the horse, fixingthe egg to the hairs by means of a glutinous substance; sheagain prepares another, which is deposited in like manner, untilmany hundreds are observed covering the hairs of the rapidity with which these eggs are prepared and depositedis astonishing. They are taken into the mouth by the animalbiting or l
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