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expansion, and for the same reason, he obstinately 

 stands up day after day, and night after night, or if lie 

 lies down from absolute fatigue, it is but for a moment. 

 Cure. — Immediately on ascertaining that a horse is 

 attacked by an inflammation of the lungs, 5 quarts of 

 blood should be taken at once ; a clyster should next be 

 given, composed of 6 ounces epsom salts dissolved in 

 thin gruel, and repeated every fourth hour, after which 

 the following ball must be given : 



Barbadoes Aloes 6 drachms. 



I'artar Emetic 2 ,, 



Calomel 1 ,, 



Digitalis 1 ,, 



Mtre 3 „ 



The horse should be blistered on both sides of the 

 lungs and chest, bran mashes and drinking water, with 

 the chill taken off. He should also be warmly clothed, 

 if the weather be cold. A free circulation of air is also 

 requisite. 



The Kidneys. 



The Kidneys are two glandular bodies, situated in the 

 superior and posterior part of the abdomen ; the right 

 generally the most anterior, and attached to the hinder 

 edge of the liver, lying under the sixteenth rib. The 

 right is usually rather triangular, and both being parti- 

 cularly covered with the peritonium duct in many brutes, 

 as the pig, cow, and sheep ; they are embedded in fat, 

 but in the horse, dog, and most fleet animals, there is 

 less fat about them. 



From the quantity of blood the kidneys receive, we 

 are led to suppose them very important organs, whose 

 use we know is to seperate from that fluid, some parts 

 whose presence would be deleterious. It is remarkable 

 that many substances taken into the stomach, and 

 absorbed by the lacteals, have their properties or sensible 



