Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westboro Road North Grafton, MA 01536 HORSES IN ACCIDENT AND DISEASE LONDON, . C'AMBKIDGE, GLASGOW, . Edinburgh : Printed by George Waterston & Sons FOR DAVID DOUGLAS. . . SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO., LIMITED. . . MACMILLAN AND BOWES. . . JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS. HORSES IN ACCIDENT AND DISEASE NOTES AND SKETCHES BY J. KOALFE COX, F.R.C.V.S. * EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS MDCCCXCII. NEW YORK: WM. R. JENKINS I All rinhts rrsrrml] 51 PREFACE. In introducing my Sketches of Horses in Accident and Disease, I should explain, in excuse of their appearance, that they were not drawn originally with any idea of publication, and they are now offered in response to the solicitation of several professional friends. From my earliest association with the Veterinary profession I have made notes and sketches of prominent signs of suffering in horses, and I have learnt that many of these are forcibly enough expressed in peculiar attitudes, if we only take the pains to read them. Fortunately, our patients never tell an untruth, and, with all the failings of their kind, they do not malinger ; whilst their tale of disablement and pain, " though it hath no tongue, will speak with most mira- culous organ." What I have seen, so have all old practitioners, and these will recognise a true and unexaggerated presentment of familiar cases, which may not be altogether uninteresting. But utility can only serve the rising generation of Veterinary Surgeons, who have not yet come across the PEEFACE. real article ; and if to such I may happily be affording some help in their reading and their earlier practice, I shall have gained all I could hope from publicity. I have purposely abstained from any lengthened description of the disorders represented, because such is already so fully given in excellent works up to date. J. KOALFE COX. London, September 1892. SKETCHES. CASE I. CHOKING. II. CHOKING. III. STOPPAGE OF THE BOWELS. IV. COLIC. V. STEANGULATED BOWEL. VI. STRANGULATED BOWEL. VII. VOMITING. VIII. STEANGULATED HEENIA. IX. EUPTUEE OF STOMACH. X. CONGESTION OF LUNGS. XL CALCULUS IN BLADDEB. XII. DISLOCATION OF PATELLA. XIII. DISLOCATION OF HIP. XIV LAMINITIS. XV. EUPTUEE OF MUSCLE (FLEXOR METATARSI). XVI. DEOPPED ELBOW. XVII. FEACTUEE OF ELBOW. XVIII. A "SHIVEEEE." XIX. WEY NECK. XX. TETANUS. SKETCHES. CASE XXI. MEGEIMS. XXII. TUMOUE IN BEAIN. XXIII. STOMACH STAGGEBS. XXIV. BEOKEN BACK. XXV. AESENIC, POISONED BY. XXVI. AESENIC, OUTWARDLY APPLIED. XXVII. ABSCESS AT POLL— CURIOUS CASE. XXVIII. 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