This section is from the book "The Horse - Its Treatment In Health And Disease", by J. Wortley Axe. Also available from Amazon: The Horse. Its Treatment In Health And Disease.
This substance is not used in equine medicine, but has occasioned the death of several animals through being injudiciously spread over the pastures as a manurial agent, and given in mistake for salt, and allowed to get into drinking-water.
Symptoms are those of irritant poisoning, and the same line of treatment should be adopted (p. 46).
 
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