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following forms, in bleeding if the ftate of the 

 body will permit, in giving warm and flimu- 

 iating medicines, with nitrous and acidulated 

 drinks, and in rowels and topical blifters. 

 Where fuch convenience can be had, the warm 

 bath for twenty minutes (hould precede every 

 other m.eans, the horfe being rubbed bone dry, 

 and well clothed ; this may be repeated once 

 or twice a day ; it muft be a fovereign remedy 

 in all colds, but requires much beyond ordi- 

 nary care. Even a warm bath for the legs, as 

 high as pofiible ; the fore legs firft, than the 

 hinder, whilft the fore ones are rubbing dry, 

 the water being kept conftantly in a good 

 (teaming heat, without annoying the horfe, 

 will have great effeft. The water may be 

 medicated, with decoclions of herbs of a foft- 

 ening and relaxing nature. 



THE EPIDEMIC COLD, OR INFLUENZA, 



Arifmg from atmofpheric contagion, is too 

 well known, both in its caufe, and diagnoftic 

 fymptoms, toneed a very particular defcription. 

 It is generally fuppofed infeftious, or communi- 

 cable from one horfe to another, and although 

 I entertain fome doubts on that head, I (liould 

 certainly recommend to feparate the infefted 

 horfes from thofe as yet untouched by the dif- 

 eafe. The general treatment already defcribed, 

 mull be perfevered in, but with full greater 



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