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 diseasesofameric01mccl Year: 1870 240 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. (3.) Strongylus.—This variety, and a species of Filaria, are sometimes found in the blood vessels, and are similar in the effects produced in the horse, to those seen in sheep affected with rot. Cause. Feeding on wet and marshy land, and pasture having been flooded with water. Who has not heard of the effects produced from this cause, in animals grazed upon the course of t
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 diseasesofameric01mccl Year: 1870 240 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. (3.) Strongylus.—This variety, and a species of Filaria, are sometimes found in the blood vessels, and are similar in the effects produced in the horse, to those seen in sheep affected with rot. Cause. Feeding on wet and marshy land, and pasture having been flooded with water. Who has not heard of the effects produced from this cause, in animals grazed upon the course of the river Nile, 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 high and dry pasture. (4.) Ascarides. 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, five 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 OP WOUNDS AND SOKKS. more or less dangerous, when entering the chest and belly; as are also poisoned wounds, or those from the bite of a mad dog. (See Bites.)
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