74 HORSEMANSHIP. 



vital power has time to generate heat sufficiently fast 

 to renew the caloric lost by evaporation. His practice 

 is to bandage with coarse linen, an article much more 

 suitable to the texture of the skin. After the bandage 

 has been steeped in cold water, the moisture is wrung 

 out more or less, according to the amount of inflamma- 

 tion that exists. If there be acute inflammation, the 

 bandage is partially wrung out, and renewed every 

 half-hour, or every hour, or every hour and a half, 

 without the additional covering of the dry bandage. 

 Upon every renewal of the bandage, the limb is well 

 sponged with cold water, and gently or well hand- 

 rubbed, unless the skin be abraded. If acute inflam- 

 mation does not exist, the bandages are well wrung out, 

 and when rolled upon the limb are covered with dry 

 bandages, one or two folds of loet requirhig three or four 

 folds of dry. 



The instant the bandages are removed, the limb is 

 sponged with cold water, and well hand-rubbed for 

 several minutes ; or it is hand-rubbed with wet hands 

 very frequently dipped in cold water. 



Thus in acute inflammation, the inflammatory ex- 

 citement is reduced by a rapid evaporation of the 

 local secretions, acting in similar but more effective 



