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the skin, and will tend to keep down the inflamma- 

 tion. The common practice is to introduce a small 

 piece of corrosive sublimate, or else to dress the part 

 with aquafortis, either of which are very dangerous, 

 because they destroy all the parts which they touch, 

 and the vein being eaten away also, the horse is in 

 danger of bleeding to death, except the vein is tied 

 by a ligature above the orifice. 



Another writer on this subject remarks, that 'the 

 cases where bleeding is required are, violent bruises 

 or strains in the muscular and tendinous parts, where 

 they are attended with much inflammation ; also 

 large wounds, where there is much laceration with- 

 out much loss of blood. It is likewise proper in all 

 cuticular disorders or eruptions on the skin, in large 

 swellings on the body or legs arising from a plethoric 

 state ; in all deep punctures, when the horse shews 

 symptoms of great pain ; and in swelling of the legs 

 or heels, when attended with much inflammation. 



* Bleeding is sometimes the speediest method of 

 giving relief in the beginning of inflammatory fevers, 

 to which horses are very liable ; it is also necessary 

 in all violent acute pains, as in the gripes, or colic, 

 strangury, or suppression of urine ; in rheumatic 

 complaints, where the pain causes stiffiiess, or lame- 

 ness, and which frequently shifts from one limb to 

 another, or when it affects the neck, and occasions 

 that stiffiiess and contraction of the muscles which 

 is commonly called the chords ; in inflammation of 

 the eyes, or palate of the mouth, the latter of which 

 is called the lampas, w^hen the horse cannot eat his 

 food on account of the tenderness of the parts — in 

 all recent colds, attended with defluxions of the 

 eyes; in recent swellings of the glands about the 

 throat, jaws, &c. ; in inflammations of the liver, the 

 lungs, the pleura, stomach, intestines, kidneys, blad- 

 der, or any of the internal viscera; in apoplexy, 

 vertigo, or giddiness, and in all disorders where the 

 head seems aifected ; in eruptions of the skin, called 



