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about a foot square. Give half a pint of linseed- 

 oil, which repeat every seven hours till an eva- 

 cuation takes place ; but no purging is allowed 

 here any more than in the previous disease ; 

 merely the removal of the costiveness, so as to 

 cause a softened state of the dung. The legs 

 must be well hand-rubbed to restore the circu- 

 lation, and then bandaged with flannel or tied 

 round with grass. A jhool, if it is cold or damp, 

 should be put over the body, but the horse kept 

 in a cool place. Warm bran mashes, with two 

 drachms of finely-powdered gum-arabic in each 

 mash ; linseed or bran tea ; thin gruel, and a 

 little green grass, is all the food allowed for the 

 first three days. If the bleeding has been pro- 

 perly performed, and none of the other treatment 

 omitted, the force of the disease generally yields 

 in six or eight hours ; but if after that time the 

 inflammation should not be subdued, and the 

 symptoms of uneasiness and pain continue as at 

 first, bleed again two or three quarts from each 

 vein, and draw the firing-iron over the belly two 

 or three strokes, a little behind the blister. The 

 costiveness must be fully removed before the 

 inflammation will subside; but immediately the 

 dung is softened, no more physic is necessary, 

 nothing but a soothing congee clyster.* 



* A handsome Arab, that had gone through a morning's 



