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Bliist EKING Ointment [page l6] down the 

 throat, and nesr the brisket. To iillay the fever, the 



Cough and Feveh Powdeks [page 19] may be 

 given. The horse should have his head cloathed, 

 and kept generally Avanii, \sith mashes and v.arm wa- 

 ter allowed ; and in every respect he slioidd be treated 

 fis a horse in fever. When the glands have formed 

 tlieii matter, which is known by the increased swell- 

 ing and softness, open with a seton or common lancet, 

 an<l gently press the matter out. 



The horse should now be supported with picked 

 Isav, and malt mashes, till the cure is completed. 



STRAINS. 

 No affection is so much mistaken as that called a 

 <rain. nor anv com|>Iairit so varioiislv treated. This 

 arises from two sources : the ope is, considering tlie 

 tendons, the frequent seat of strains, as elastic sub- 

 stances, put too much on the stretch ; and the other 

 arises from not considering strains as having two 

 gfarves, — one comptosed of inflammation, and ano- 

 ther of the debility left in the part from the effects 

 of the inflammation, and of the violence. A strain 

 is an unnatural extension of an elastic part, and a 

 rupture of an inelastic part : now the muscles may 

 be relaxed, but the tendons, perhaps, are seldom or 

 ever extended ; but more usually their sheaths have 

 ?;ome of their connections, or perhaps some of their 

 fibres, ruptured. The treatment is the same in 

 filher case ; for infiammation always follows a strain, 

 and the part becomes hotter and 'larger than usual ; 

 this must, therefore, be treated as other inflamma- 

 tions : the horse should be bled when it is violent; he 



