26 LIST OP SPECIFICS AND IIKMKDI !:>. 



When the disease has become fully developed, 

 or appears very violent, or does not promptly yield 

 to the remedies, we advise the following coarse, 

 from a full conviction that, if perse veringly fol- 

 lowed, the animal may be promptly saved. We 

 have been very successful in this. 



Provide several buckets or tubs of water, as 

 cold as it can be made, the colder the better, even 

 if swimming in snow and ice, as the object is to 

 reduce the temperature of the animal as rapidly as 

 possible. Provide conveniently, also, several 

 blankets and parts of blankets, or clothes, to 

 wrap up the entire body, neck and L-us. These 

 should be conveniently at hand, so as to envelop 

 the animal as soon as possible after having been 

 thoroughly chilled. Then standing the animal 

 whore the water will conveniently run off, proceed 

 gently to pour the water over the animal from a 

 pitcher, in a moderate stream. Two persons can 

 do it best, each with pitchers, being constantly 

 replenished from buckets behind them, at the rate 

 ot ;i bucketful each in three or four minutes, pour- 

 ing the stream from the top of the head, so on 

 along down the neck and spine, constantly chang- 

 ing the direction of the streams, and keeping them 

 running over the animal, until he is thoroughly 

 chilled through and through, and sJmkt-s <.nnl trem- 

 bles violently. This is the criterion, and the streams 

 must be kept iip until this is accomplished, 

 whether it requires twenty minutes, or two hours, 

 or longer. 



As soon as this is accomplished, and the horse 

 shakes and trembles violently, remove him to a com- 

 fortable place, wipe off the superfluous water, and 

 wrap him in blankets from head to heels, envelop- 

 ing the neck and muzzle, body and limbs, in sev- 

 eral folds, pinning them closely, and throwing 



