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blows, wounds, pressure, burns, &c , and inhalation of noxious gases 

 and irritants. All the living tissues of the body are prone to the 

 influence of inflammation ; and whenever we have inflammation of 

 any one organ or part of the body, it is always accompanied, more or 

 less, by general or constitutional fever, which necessitates both local 

 and constitutional treatment. 



36. Local Treatment is when we can apply remedies, directly, to 

 the affected parts, as by removing the shoes, and putting on cold 

 water bran poultices, in founder or inflammation of the feet. Weed, 

 or inflammation of the absorbents or lymphatic vessels of the hind or 

 fore leg, is another good case for local treatment, and no treatment is 

 better than to put meadow hay bandages, saturated well with cold 

 water, wound round the affected limb. Abscess forming in any 

 superficial part of the body is another illustration of the application of 

 local treatment, which may be by hot or cold poultices, cooling 

 lotions, salt and saltpetre dissolved in water, ice, sal ammoniac, vinegar 

 and water, or stimulating liniments and blisters, and in a case of 

 Inflammation of the lungs hot blankets applied to the sides. 



37. Constitutional Treatment has to be adopted when there is 

 a general disturbance set up — Sympathetic Fever — in addition to the 

 local disturbance. When the fever arises from some extensive 

 external injury or wound, it is known as Traumatic or Symptomatic Fever. 



38. Sympathetic Fever. — A few years ago, the treatment of 

 sympathetic fever, in country practice generally, took the form of 

 blood-letting, purgatives, &c., which then seemed to give satisfaction, 

 but now a more rational mode of treatment is adopted. The personal 

 comfort of the patient is now looked after by putting the animal into 

 a well-ventilated loose box, free from draughts, but with plenty of air ; 

 clothing the body and bandaging the legs, and administering medicines 

 of a saline aperient character, such as i to 2 ounces of Epsom or 

 Glauber's Salts, 2 to 4 drachms each of Nitrate of Potash and Cream 

 of Tartar, with 10 to 15 drops of Fleming's Tincture of Aconite, 

 given either as a draught in one pint of cold water, or in the drinking 



