Overview

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...I averaged twenty horss in my stable during the summer; I did not have a case of staggers in my stable: I did not use a particle of food that was not imported from the West, and I think that is the reason I did not have any of the disease. As I was anxious to discover a case of the disease in a large town where the feed is procured from feed-stores, and consequently raised in the West, I made inquiries in every direction, but I failed to find a single case. I was told that a certain horse doctor in Portsmouth had had great success in treating the disease. I went to see him and he made the following statement: I cured eighteen cases out of nineteen I treated for the disease, only one of which was in Portsmouth and owned by L. H. Pearson; the balance were in the country. I did not see the one that died, but I sent the medicine to him, and the man only got one dose down the horse before it died, and I can not count that a case. I do not call the disease staggers. I think it is malaria, because I treated it for such and the horses got well. I went immediately to see Mr. L. H. Pearson, from whom I received the following account of his horse, mentioned in the horse doctor's statement: I had an animal sick; drove her about 15 miles the evening before she got sick; she appeared as well as usual; about 12 o'clock next day I noticed she was uneasy; would look back at her flanks as if in pain; would walk around, then he down and groan and grunt like a person; she would paw continually when standing up, then lie down and roll over from side to side; at 5 o'clock same evening she was as well aa ever. It is hardly necessary for me to say that I did not follow up any more of the cases of this horse doctor, who treated a case of ordinary spasmodic colic for a...

Full Product Details

9781153851244

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available