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to allow it. Bleed three quarts from each affected 

 foot ;* if you cannot get that quantity, take as 

 much as you can, and then bleed six quarts from 

 the neck vein. The bleeding over, put the feet 

 into warm poultices of bran and linseed-meal. 

 Back-rake, clyster, with warm soap and water, 

 and give the mild aloetic salt drench, p. 99 ; 

 also one drachm and a half of emetic tartar, two 

 drachms of nitre, and two drachms of cream of 

 tartar, morning and evening, for three days, 

 dissolved in half a pint of warm water. Make 

 a large soft bed, that he may lie down as much as 

 possible ; but, for the first three days, the diet 

 must be only bran mash ; water with the chill off, 

 and occasionally a handful of green grass. On the 

 following day after the attack, if the inflamma- 

 tion has not subsided, bleed again, three quarts 

 from each foot ; and if the horse is fat, change 

 the warm poultices to swabs of cloth, which wrap 

 round the hoofs, keeping them well wet with 

 two ounces of nitre dissolved in a quart of 

 the coldest water. On the third day, if the 

 inflammation still remains, the pastern, round 

 about the coronet, is to be blistered ; but unless 

 the blistered part is well covered up with a cloth, 

 and also something put round the neck to pre- 

 vent him getting at it with his mouth, he will 



^^ See '' Bleeding," p. 85. 



