490 PULMONARY CONGESTION. 



animal plenty of pure air. When occurring in the hunting-field, 

 where of all out-of-door conditions and situations this disturb- 

 ance is most likely to demand our attention, the rider ought 

 to dismount, loosen his saddle-girths, and turn the horse's head 

 to the wind, while he proceeds to smartly rub the surface of the 

 body. This, when carried out before the animal has actually 

 come to a stand, will most probably restore the circulation 

 through the lungs and unload the engorged vessels. How- 

 ever much blood-letting may be condemned, and however cer- 

 tain it is that in the majority of cases it may be dispensed 

 with, there are yet situations and conditions where to neglect 

 its employment were to throw away the chances of a good and 

 rapid recovery. The situations referred to are where we may 

 be placed with no possibility of obtaining help from the use of 

 any medicinal agent ; the conditions, where the animal is not 

 perfectly pulseless, or where the pulsations are not of a 

 peculiarly feeble, flickering, nearly imperceptible character. 

 By blood-letting when the blood-current is still moving on, 

 we may be able to relieve for a time the over-charged 

 heart. 



No doubt those cases which are most benefited by blood- 

 letting are such as might without any interference recover, and 

 the more seriously affected are those where its employment is 

 likely to prove destructive ; still, in moderately severe cases, 

 where we are by situation or other conditions precluded from 

 employing any remedies likely to be useful, the abstraction of 

 blood is not to be neglected. 



In cases both stabled and occurring in the open air, whether 

 blood-letting is resorted to or not, every attempt must be made 

 to secure a sufficiency of fresh air and a restoration of the dis- 

 turbed equilibrium of the circulation by smart friction to the 

 surface of the body and the extremities, together with the 

 repeated exhibition of moderate doses of some diffusible stimu- 

 lant, of which the alcoholic appear to answer best. The attempt 

 to promote circulation in the extremities may, in addition to 

 simple friction with the hand or a hay-wisp, be carried out by 

 the application of a stimulating liniment apphed previous to 

 the limbs being swathed in woollen bandages. 



I have always found the internal administration of stimu- 

 lants, whatever these may be, most successful when given in 



