76 HORSEMANSHIP. 



of volume with the greatest nicety, and there is no 

 disease to which the bowels of the horse are subject, 

 in which the exhibition of the cold-water injection will 

 not prove of the greatest benefit, provided that either 

 exercise or friction to the abdomen be used imme- 

 diately. 



The temperature of wet bandages is about 50°. The 

 temperature of the blood of the horse is about 98°, or 

 about the same as that in man. When the wet 

 bandages have been applied to the animal, they soon 

 rise in temperature to within a few degrees of the heat 

 of the blood. Therefore in all cases of inflammation, 

 it proves the great necessity that exists for the very 

 frequent renewal of the wet bandage, and the enormous 

 power it exerts in subduing the remotest tendency to 

 inflammatory action. 



If water of a lower temperature be required in 

 consequence of extreme inflammation, steep the band- 

 ages in iced water. Bandages wrung out of iced water, 

 and frequently renewed, will permit the reaction and 

 evaporation of the blood ; but if ice itself be applied in 

 immediate contact with the animal, it overpowers the 

 vitality and paralyses the energy of the blood. 



Although wet bandages will cure all local injuries, 



