The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 744.—A sectional view of Fig. 741. An exact drawing of specimenstiowing grain of new growtli of soft, spongy horn. ap2:)ly some moderately stimulating liniment to the legs and shoul-ders to keep up the circulation, and give a dose of physic. Eemoveone blanket after
The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 744.—A sectional view of Fig. 741. An exact drawing of specimenstiowing grain of new growtli of soft, spongy horn. ap2:)ly some moderately stimulating liniment to the legs and shoul-ders to keep up the circulation, and give a dose of physic. Eemoveone blanket after another as he cools off, leaving on the last one,and give some soft feed. On the second day exercise the horse alittle, and usually on the fourth day he is in a condition for woik. I have included this variety of treatment the better to give aclear understanding to stablemen and others as to what they can doin an emergency. The first method, which I will call Summer-villes, I know to be entirely reliable ; at all events, I have notknown of a single case out of a large number treated on this plan *The horse on no account should be put to work so soon itit can bo avoided, LAMiNITIS, OR FOUNDBE. 837. that did not entirely recover, without, so far as I could see, anyevidence of the sole dropping. But as few have the conveniences,or know how to bleed,it is very important to beable to treat such caseswithout bleeding. On thisaccount, I have added thedetails from other leading-practitioners, and, as willbe seen, there is the bestof assurance of other treat- \ ^ment being equally relia- X-^^ble. In any event, should ^ ^ Tthe farmer or horse ownerfind his horse foundered,and no veterinary surgeonavailable, he can at leastresort to the simplest meth-ods, such as putting thefeet in a tub of hot wa-ter, in which is a lot of hay or straw ; bathing the forward parts thoroughly, as di-rected by Dr. Meyer orthe country there is much fever,and the fever medicine oraconite is
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