Diseases of the American horse, Diseases of the American horse, and cattle and sheep : their treatment, with a list and full description of the medicines employed diseasesofameric00mccl Year: 1870 240 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. (3.) Stroxgylus.—This variety, and a species of Filaria, arc sometimes found in tlic blood vessels, and are similar in the ciTects produced in the horse, to those seen in sheep affected with rot. Chusc. Feeding on wet and marshy laiid, and pasture leaving been flooded with water. \iho has not heard of the effects produced ft'om this cause, in animals grazed ii])on the cou
Diseases of the American horse, Diseases of the American horse, and cattle and sheep : their treatment, with a list and full description of the medicines employed diseasesofameric00mccl Year: 1870 240 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. (3.) Stroxgylus.—This variety, and a species of Filaria, arc sometimes found in tlic blood vessels, and are similar in the ciTects produced in the horse, to those seen in sheep affected with rot. Chusc. Feeding on wet and marshy laiid, and pasture leaving been flooded with water. \iho has not heard of the effects produced ft'om this cause, in animals grazed ii])on the course of the river Xile, in Egypt, after each inundation ? Treatment. Support the strength by good, generous feed- ing, and give iron, and gentian, each two to three drachms, once a day, removing the animal to higli and dry pastiu'e, (4.) AscArjDES. Cause. A bad habit of body, called cachexia and chlo- rosis. Treatment. Give iron, gentian and arsenious acid, in the following manner: Powdered sulphate of iron, two drachms; gentian root, two drachms; arsenic, fivc grains; mix, and give in one dose in mixed, cut or soft feed, twice or three times a week. Wounds.—They are divided into simple, incised, con- tused, lacerated, punctured and poisoned. Wounds are DIRECTOR AND PROBES USED IN THE CURE OF WOUNDS AND SORES. more or less dangerous, when entering the cliest and belly; as are also poisoned wounds, or those from the bite of a mad dog. (See Bites.)
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