How TO FEEL THE PULSE. 37 



ALL NOSTRUMS, DOMESTIC MEDICINES, or herb-teas, 

 however harmless or beneficial otherwise, are STRICT- 

 LY PROHIBITED, as the Specific Medicine must be 

 permitted to act upon the system entirely undisturbed 

 by any such prejudicial influences. 



Injections of water, soap and water, or salt and 

 water are always allowable, and may often be used 

 with great benefit. They are usually administered 

 without difficulty, in no case injurious, and should 

 one fail to produce an evacuation, another or more 

 may be repeated, until the result is accomplished. 



How to Feel the Pulse. 



This is best done by placing the finger on the 

 artery, where it passes over the lower jaw, about four 

 inches below its angle- Place the forefinger on the 

 side of the lower jaw at its angle, and trace the jaw 

 along gently towards the mouth. Some four inches 

 below the angle a notch will be fouud, in which the 

 artery passes over the jaw, and the throbbing of the 

 pulse will be readily felt. Some attention may be 

 required as the pulse beats in health slowly, and 

 often apparently indistinctly. 



The pulse makes in the healthy horse from thirty- 

 six to forty-two beats per minute ; in spirited lighter 

 horses the latter, and in heavy older horses the for- 

 mer. When the pulse reaches fifty to fifty five, there 

 is some degree of fever. Seventy-five will indicate 

 a dangerous condition, and few horses will long sur- 

 vive a pulse of one hundred. Care should be taken 

 not to excite a horse before or while examining the 

 pulse, as it may thus readily be increased ten or 

 fifteen beats to the minute, and mislead as to the 

 true condition. 



