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then rub them well till dry, and bandage them 

 up to the knees and hocks in thick flannel ban- 

 dages, or cover them round thickly with dry 

 grass. If it is cold weather, put on a warm 

 jhool; but the horse must remain in as cool 

 a place as possible; if in a stable, every door 

 and window should be open. In six hours after 

 the bleeding, should the breathing still continue 

 laborious, the ears and legs cadaverously cold, 

 and he still stand in that peculiar stiff position, 

 with the forelegs rather wide apart, open both 

 veins again, and take from each another two or 

 three quarts, and give half a drachm of digitalis, 

 one drachm of emetic tartar, and three drachms 

 of nitre, made into a ball with linseed meal and 

 liquorice water, or put them into a drench. Two 

 ounces of the simple oxymel,* are also to be 

 given once every eight hours ; and clyster every 

 day, for three or four days, if the bowels are not 

 open, with one ounce of soap and four ounces 

 of Epsom salts, in two gallons of warm water. 

 Nothing must be given to eat for the first forty- 

 eight hours but cold bran mash, (boiling water 

 poured on bran, and allowed to stand till it 

 is cold,) a handful of green meat occasionally, 

 and the water with the chill taken off. The 

 digitalis must be left out after two days; 



* See p. 225, for the '^ Oxymel." 



