HEAT, HOW REDUCBD. 73 



fiiscoat, which always accompanieg inflammation, does not so soon return toit« 

 original suppleness but assumes the first symptoms of hide-bound. When 

 those favourable symptoms appear, much assiduity in the minor helps to ro* 

 covery should be kept up, though further bleeding will be evidently unneces- 

 sary. 



1 have presumed that the patient has been already blooded in this as in all 

 other inflammatory attacks, and that to an amount commensurate to the vi- 

 rulence of the attack, even to the amount of five or six quarts, if the animal 

 is of full habit Of this proportionate degree, or quantity, let the reader more 

 precisely inform himself by turning back to what is said on this head and the 

 pulse, under general inflammation, or fever, at pages 63 and 64. The ope- 

 rator will of course follow up the bleeding with the purgative ball prescribed 

 at page 63, in the case of general inflammatory disorders. Were 1 to repeal 

 over again such general instructions, however diversified in language, 1 should 

 add no new information. In every case of bleeding a laxative should follow, 

 as l>efore directed, and clysters or water-gruel be administered in aid of both, 

 at intervals of three or four hours. Neglect not tolerably warm clothing ; 

 and by good hand rubbing, beginning [gently, for 'tis sore] at the neck and 

 chest, and so proceeding towards the hind quarters, endeavour to obtain ex- 

 ternal heat, if not perspiration. When these appear, it is a sign that effusion 

 has taken place, in a greater or less degree, acct)rding to the quantity of per- 

 spiration. This may be assisted in some degree, after the laxative and clyster 

 have well subsided, by administering a ' 



Sweating Ball. 



Take tarter emetic and asafoetida, of each one drachm. 

 Liquorice powder and syrup, enough to form the ball for one dose. 



Repeat the same in twelve hours, unless much perspiration has supervened 

 in the meantime, when there will be no necessity for repetition. Thin water- 

 gruel will assist the expected perspiration; or, if the animal be a fleshy one, 

 a bran mash may supply its place: either must be given blood-warm. 



The heat of the lungs, which is the immediate cause of the disorder, is vi- 

 sibly reduced by every inspiration of fresh air the animal takes. Naturally, 

 then, this air should be fit for its purpose, or pure ; at least not the confined 

 air of an over-filled stable, replete with noxious effluvia; nor, on the other 

 hand, a current of air that issues by doors and windows to the r*ght and to 

 the left, particularly in cold weather, or even in warmer weather whilst the 

 animal is yet sweating with the diaphoretics just now recommended. As in 

 most other affairs of life, the best will be found the medium course; for the 

 noxious stable air having irritated and so predisposed the lungs to receive the 

 blighting influence of the cold air, it follows that either extreme of stimulat- 

 ing, or bracing overmuch, must do harm one way or the other. A tuil and 

 free inquiry into the best means of employing this main auxiliary in the re- 

 storation of health in inflammatory disorders would be well worth the labom 

 of any veterinarian competent to the task ; but as regards myself at present, 

 such a course would ill suit my views in writing this too brief treatise. 1 

 shall, therefore, content myself with observing here, that since it is to this 

 want of ventilation in stables, and crowding many horses together, that we 

 jwe all pulmonary complaints and most fevers, the subject is worthy consider- 

 afion as a preventive as well as a remedy. 



Formerly, the general practice was to clothe the animal almost to suffoca- 

 tion, and to close up every aperture by which air might enter the stable; tht, 

 consequence of which mistaken notion was a severe attack of the lunas that. 

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