192 InflammaiiQn of the Boweh. 



>boi*nc in it, for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time, and be gentiy 

 jrubbed dry afterwards. Friction should be applied to tiie limbs, 

 and as fa&t as they can be brought to their natural warmth they should 

 be protected in that state by woollen cloths or soft hay-bands. 



If the symptoms be not decidedly relieved in the course of six ot 

 eight hours, take away from four to six quarts more blood, according 

 io the size of the Horse and the urgency of the case, and this ope- 

 ration, it may become necessary to repeat in five or six hours more, 

 imlcss decided relief be obtained. But, if in the course of two oi^ 

 three hours after the first bleeding, the pawing and quickness of 

 breathing should encrease, and more especially, if the pulse be not 

 somewhat slower, softer or fuller, a second bleeding should be had 

 recourse to immediately, and instead of continuing the hot fomenta-^ 

 tions, the skin of the belly should be rubbed perfectly dry, and the 

 entire surface of it should be either blistered or fired without delay. 

 When the symptoms are extremely urgent, the latter mode of set- 

 ting up vehement external inflammation, which is (he object we have 

 in view, as it is by far the most expeditious, so for this reason it is 

 inost to be depended upon. If the operation be performed with 

 judgment, it may be done readily enough, without occasioning the 

 smallest eventual blemish. 



The firing instrument should be broad and flat or sKghtly concave, 

 and should be passed over the skin of the belly with a degree of 

 pressure sufficient to excite considerable inflammation without pro- 

 ducing sloughs in that integument. 



In recommending this severe and apparently coarse remedy, I am 

 well aware that I lay myself open to the charge of cruelty, but as 

 in all extreme cases I have been convinced of its superiority over 



