296 MARSH MALLOWS, 



to keep the bowels actively at work. You may make the skin 

 work for itself and the kidneys, with the warm pack, and take 

 care that the lungs get good, dry, pure air to carry off their 

 share. 



729. — Get one pound of marsh-mallow roots, dry or fresh. 

 Bruise and boil one hour in six quarts of water. Give the horse 

 a pint of this decoction every six hours. If marsh-mallow roots 

 cannot be got, asparagus roots, sprouts, stems, or foliage, 

 may be substituted. A large poultice of marsh-mallow leaves 

 may be placed hot on the loins. 



IN INFLAMJiIATION OF THE BLADDER 



730. — No better treatment can be adopted than that we 

 advise for the kidneys, and it is by no means easy to say which the 

 horse is suffering from. When it is inflammation of the neck of 

 the bladder, the bladder is likely to be full, and may be felt under 

 the rectum, by carefully introducing the oiled hand. If it is 

 inflammation of the neck of the bladder, or obstruction in any 

 part of the passage, asparagus roots will be better than marsh- 

 mallow roots, as they have a more relaxing effect upon the 

 muscles. 



731. — It is often by no means easy to decide what portion 

 of the urinary organs is involved, and hence one of the great 

 advantages of hydropathic treatment, as in any case we must do 

 good if we can put upon the healthy skin, the work which the 

 urinary organs, from any cause, are unable to accomplish . 



THE LIVEE. 



732. —The horse has seldom anything wrong with the liver. 

 He eats no meat, takes no grog, and is never long idle if he can 

 help it. He has no gall bladder, and consequently no liability 

 to form gall stones. As he was never made to go long without 

 food, and has no food cupboard like the ox, the gall flows into the 

 bowels, as it is extracted from the blood, without any reservoir in 

 which to accumulate. 



JAUNDICE. 



7S3. — Or a yellowness resembling it, about the eyes, Sec, is 



