Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — Noxious Drugs to Horses. [ARTICLE]

Noxious Drugs to Horses.

Grooms are too much in the habit of administering these, wholly careless or ignorant of their injurious effect. This is particularly the case with arsenic, which they freely use, in order to give horses a finer and more showy coat of hair. We often hear of eases of the death of horses from this cause, both at home and abroad. It is an imperative order from us to our stable men to never give medicine of any kind to our animals without first consulting us. In some European countries, particularly in Hungary, we have heard that the lower class of females are almost insanely addicted to the habit of taking arsenic, to improve the complexion of the face. In a short time the system gets so accustomed to this dangerous drug that a delicate female, can take enough at a single dose to kill half a dozen stout men. But a continuation of these doses for a few years is sure to result in premature death.