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With this apparatus, it may be effected by a process at once 

 simple, cheap, and efficient. Proceed as follows : — Procure two 

 light wooden trestles, seven feet in length, and about four feet 

 six inches in height. Along the top of each trestle bore six 

 holes, each hole half an inch in diameter ; bore them at equal 

 distances from each other, and at correspondiDg distances in 

 each trestle. Place the trestles four feet apart, and parallel to 

 each other in the box or stable where the patient is to be 

 operated upon. Lead the animal between the trestles ; then 

 from one trestle to the other fix bent rods of half-inch iron, or 

 of hoop-wood — each rod passing over the patient as an arch. 

 Then over the whole draw a waggon-cover ; the cover must be 

 large enough to cover the iron arches and the trestles, and to 

 fall to the ground behind and on each side of the patient. In 

 front fix a smaller piece of tarpauliug ; fix it under the neck, 

 and in front of the breast. The head of the patient should be 

 outside ; but every other portion of the body must be within, 

 with the tarpaulin so closely secured as to prevent the escape 

 of steam. Let the whole apparatus be prepared with as little 

 noise and as little excitement to the animal as possible ; and 

 when all arrangements are complete, and the outer door closed, 

 turn in the steam near to the ground and under the belly of 

 the patient. Continue it for twenty minutes or half an hour, 

 or longer if the process be agreeable. After the bath great 

 care must be exercised, otherwise injurious effects may ensue. 

 The animal should be briskly scraped ; then clothed with 

 hood, breast-cloth, woollen rugs of an extra size, and wool- 

 len bandages to the limbs, after which allow the patient to 

 drink freely of gruel. The animal may then be left alone for 

 several hours. Should the Steam Bath prove beneficial, it may 

 be repeated every three or four days until convalescence is 

 fully established. 



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