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three draclims of aloes, using the latter in case the clysters, 

 which may be repeated morning and evening if required, be 

 not themselves sufficient. There will be no fear of super- 

 purgation from so small a quantity of aloes ; or, if there 

 should appear to be, let water-gruel be substituted for the 

 horse's water, and hay given to him to eat, without bran. 

 A rowel had better be inserted early in the disease ; over 

 which, upon the breast, as well as upon the sides, may be 

 well rubbed into the skin the turpentine liniment, recom- 

 mended for the throat in catarrh (at page 22.) This liniment 

 ought to be re-applied morning and evening until the skin 

 evinces sweating and matting together from it ; if continued 

 beyond this the hair will come off. In the most severe cases, 

 no hesitation should be made, or time lost, in applying 

 potent and extensive blisters to the sides, previously either 

 singed or clipped. The box or habitation of the patient 

 ought to be kept at a temperature not lower than 50° Fah., 

 and he should be warmly clad, and have his legs kept warm 

 with flannel bandages. This determination of blood to the 

 skin may be assisted by medicine. Either Nitric ^ther 

 draughts, consisting each of three or four ounces of aether to 

 a pint of tepid water, may be given twice or thrice a day, 

 or the fever ball may be administered morning and evening; 

 the same as is recommended for catarrh (page 22). So long 

 as fever and irritative action continue, great reliance must 

 be placed on the continuance of the soothing treatment — 

 steaming and fomentation ; but when once the disease has 

 fairly settled down in the chest, and appears to be running 

 its course therein, threatening, to a certainty almost, com- 

 munication to the substance of the lung, we must place more 

 reliance upon counter-irritation and internal medicine than 

 anything else. Even here — in young horses, certainly, and 

 in old ones we are disposed to think so too — experience 

 does not warrant the use of the phleam. While, instead of 

 continuing the use of the fever medicine at this stage of 

 disease, when effusion into the lung or cavity of the thorax 

 may be apprehended, I have administered with the best effects 

 alterative doses, of mercury, in combination with diaphoretic 



