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place it by about five gallons of fresh. Boil this an hour, 

 and let it cool till lukewarm ; then add two pounds of 

 sulphate of soda or Glauber's salts. Administer dosea 

 of this water, strained through a linen cloth, four times a 

 day. Continue this treatment three, four, or five days, 

 until the animal is better. A second bleeding at the 

 neck, if it can be done, if not, from the large vein in the 

 belly, may take place eight or ten hours after the first. 



11 When the animal is better, give it at first some clear, 

 warm water, and soon after increase its ration of hay, 

 fresh grass or roots cut and mixed with barley meal, 

 and a moderate dose of table salt. The temperature of 

 this water may be gradually diminished, till in a few days 

 the animal returns to its usual condition. As a diet, dur- 

 ing treatment, oatmeal is undoubtedly one of the best 

 articles ; and it may be made into a thin gruel, with salt 

 enough to make it palatable. 



" If during the preceding treatment the animal should 

 cough a little, and respiration be quick and labored, with 

 an apparent pain in the chest, the tender parts should be 

 rubbed with the following preparation : — 



£ oz. pulv. cantharides, (Spanish flies.) 

 i " euphorbia, (a powerful irritant.) 

 1 pint of alcohol. 

 Mix in a small earthen jug, put the cork in loosely, and 

 warm and shake it up, then pass through a linen 

 strainer, and preserve it for use as a counter-irritant 

 on the sides of the chest. Rub the tender parts of the 

 chest in order to produce irritation, which will terminate 

 in small blisters containing a reddish liquid. Some 

 have used successfully a common mustard seed poultice 

 placed on the sides of the chest, after shaving off the hair 

 from the parts ; but the above preparation of Spanish 

 flies is preferable. 



" If the animal coughs frequently, and the discharge from 

 the nostrils is thick and yellow, and there is a rattle in 

 the air passages, prepare the following fumigation : — 



" Boil two handfuls of mallows in water for half an hour, 

 and place it, while boiling, beneath the nose of the an- 

 imal, having enveloped its head with a cloth, so that it is 



