. The homœopathic veterinary doctor, giving the history, means of prevention, and symptoms of all diseases of the horse, ox, sheep, hog, dog, cat, poultry and birds, and the most approved methods of treatment. Veterinary medicine. •^6 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. i'mentioned under belladonna in inflammation of the brain, occur. Give stramonium for the symptoms indicating belladonna, if the latter remedy fails. Hyoscyamus is beneficial for great excitability, enlarged jDupils, and sleeplessness. Put ten drops of the chosen remedy in a pint of water and give a wine-glassful once in from one to six hou
. The homœopathic veterinary doctor, giving the history, means of prevention, and symptoms of all diseases of the horse, ox, sheep, hog, dog, cat, poultry and birds, and the most approved methods of treatment. Veterinary medicine. •^6 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. i'mentioned under belladonna in inflammation of the brain, occur. Give stramonium for the symptoms indicating belladonna, if the latter remedy fails. Hyoscyamus is beneficial for great excitability, enlarged jDupils, and sleeplessness. Put ten drops of the chosen remedy in a pint of water and give a wine-glassful once in from one to six hours, according to the severity of the case. Chloral hydrate or bromide of potassa will be found useful in .violent cases, to produce quiet, twenty to forty grains at a dose. LOCK-JAW.—TETANUS. This is a general or partial contraction of the muscles. It is more -common in old horses. The causes we divide, for convenience, into two classes:—(i) Exposure to cold after clipping; snow and cold winds; ex- cessive heat; severe weather of any kind; over-exertion; worms in the bowels; bots in the stomach; disordered digestion; inflammation of the stomach, bowels, lungs, or liver; advanced stages of stomach staggers (which see). (2) Wounds, especially those that are not inflammatory, such as result from clipping; docking; nicking; castration; cutting of abscesses; bruises; pricks in shoeing; open joints; broken knees; nails in the sole of the foot; dirt; rust, or points of instruments in vv^ounds; galling of saddle , or harness; severely crushed bones. Slight wounds and injuries inost often lead to it because they are too much disregarded. Horses are rendered more liable to lock-jaw by low condition, cold weather, starvation, and other debilitating conditions. Symptoms.—Though these may occur within a half-hour, especially when the cause is found vmder (i) above, the effects may not come on, when resulting from a wound, until the wound is nearly healed. At first, the horse seems
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