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Management of the patient while under treatment. — As I 

 have already intimated a full supply of pure air must be 

 insured ; for a practitioner would be more likely to save an 

 animal in the open air (provided the weather was not too 

 cold nor tempestuous), than in the unventilated cow-house. 

 Should the limbs at any time be cold, they are to be hand 

 rubbed and bandaged: the body being in the same con- 

 dition, must also be clothed. I should also give the chilled 

 patient some warm ginger tea or any other non-alcoholic 

 stimulant or carminitive, in view of arousing the action of the 

 heart and capillaries, by which means the red arterial and life- 

 sustaining blood, would be forced to the external surface and 

 extremities, imparting to them a genial warmth, and thus 

 insuring an equilibrium of the circulating fluid. 



The patient should be furnished constantly with a bucket 

 of pure cold water ; when morbid thirst prevails, the water 

 must be "acidulated with either lemon juice, cream of tartar, or 

 acetic acid ; any symptoms of debility or lassitude are to be 

 opposed by a few doses of some vegetable tonic ; tincture of 

 goldenseal, or tincture of matico, in ounce doses, every twelve 

 hours, are the best remedies that I am acquainted with. 



Finally. — My experience in the treatment of this formid- 

 able disease is, that in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, 

 the patient dies of a meddlesome medicinal disease ; in fact, 

 he dies secundem artem. In view of furnishing a logical argu- 

 ment to support this theory, I refer the reader to Youatt, 

 Percival, and others of the orthodox stamp, — very learned 

 men, — who are apt to place too much confidence in art, to 

 the exclusion of nature. 



It is my opinion, after many years study and practice, that 

 diseases are not cured by art, but art may so modify the dis- 

 eased condition that the recuperative powers of the system 

 can thereby induce salutary changes, without which they can- 

 not, so readily, be effected. Thus art, when understandingly 

 applied, may be said to aid nature. 



