328 GASTEITIS. 



Hot akd Cold Watee. — Hot and Cold Water are, in 

 cases of this nature, remedies of value. Cold water should be 

 applied to the head bj means of coarse cloths, or by fixing a 

 large sponge saturated with water to the forehead. Ice for this 

 purpose is better than water ; but Ice cannot at all times be 

 procured so readily as water. The application of either the one 

 or the other should be frequent until convalescence is established. 



Hot TVateb- is sometimes of great value if given internally. 

 I have known it in several cases to speedily remove the gastric 

 pain. Administer it at the commencement of the disease in 

 doses of a pint. It may be given at a temperature of 116° or 

 118° Fahrenheit. 



Aloes. — The administration of a purgative is essential to 

 rid the digestive organs of the load of matter which they usually 

 contain. I have known horses thus affected part with long 

 coarse stalks of rye grass, tares, clover, and hay, for days in 

 succession. If the patient be a large, coarse bred animal, give 

 him a drench as soon after being attacked as possible, consisting 

 of— 



Barbadoes Aloes ... 1 ounce. 



"Water ... 1 pint. 



Should this fail to produce a free action of the bowels within 

 twelve or fourteen hours after being given, administer a second 

 draught, containing half the quantity ^f Aloes. 



Purgation will be hastened by giving the patient from a pint 

 to a quart of tepid water every hour. 



Oliye Oil. — I have administered Olive Oil as a covering 

 or protection to the mucous membrane of the stomach and 

 intestines, against the attrition arising from the action of the 

 coarse stalks of rye grass, tares, or hay upon it. Give half a 

 pint for a dose. It is seldom necessary to repeat the oil. It 

 is perhaps the least nauseating in its effects of any other kind 

 of oil which could be selected. 



