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blisterinf^, 1 have recommended its adoption in this dieease upon 

 the same principle that I have advised it to be had recourse to in the 

 last stag-es of Spasmodic Cholic. In four or five hours after blis- 

 tering or firing- the Belly^ in case the pawing and uneasiness con- 

 tinue^ three or four quarts more blood may be taken away. — 

 Rowels have been recommended in this disease, but the rapidity with 

 which the inflammation usually runs on to mortification, unless more 

 active means of relief be had recourse to, precludes any rational ex- 

 pectation of advantage from their use. As, in the disease last treated 

 on, so, more especially in this, care should be taken that the animal's 

 bed be dry and ample. Except in hot weather the Horse should be 

 clothed, especially if he have been accustomed to cloathing ; but in 

 sultry weather, or if the thermometer much exceed sixty in the shade, 

 air cannot be admitted too freely into the stable, and cloathing would 

 be prejudicial. On the other hand, during cold weather the stable 

 ought to be kept warm, and the animal should be covered with plenty 

 of light woollen cloathing. The state of the Horse's limbs should be 

 particularly attended to, and if cold they should be well hand-rubbed 

 and afterwards covered with woollen cloths or hay-bands. I have as 

 vet said nothing on the subject of nourishment, because it is com- 

 paratively of no moment. Fortunately for the animal, during the 

 conflict there is no disposition to eat at all. For, the digestive process 

 being in all such extreme cases suspended, whatever the animal 

 might be induced to eat, could not be digested, and even if it were 

 converted into nutriment, it could only operate to the disadvantage of 

 the Horse, by adding to the stock of blood which it is our great object to 

 diminish. But, as it would be considered by most people to be igno- 

 rant practice, and by soma to be little short of criminal, purposely to 



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