426 MYOSITIS. 



Fomentations. — Few tilings will tend more to sooth the 

 patient, whether the affection be local or general, than Fomen- 

 tations. If the affection be systemic, fold large woollen rugs, 

 previously dipped in water at a temperature of 114° Fahrenheit, 

 around the animal. If the affection be local, fomentations can 

 be more readily applied. 



After fomenting the body at large, the patient should have 

 a cold shower bath : a contrivance for this purpose may be easily 

 devised ; and immediately after the shower bath, the animal 

 should be briskly rubbed with dry coarse cloths, and then 

 covered with dry woollen clothing, and left alone for several hours. 



TuKNiNa THE Patient to G-eass. — Myositis, be it under- 

 stood, is an affection difficult at times to cure: considerable 

 patience will be required ere the animal is restored, and not 

 unfrequently all remedies of an ordinary character prove of little 

 or no avail. The malady cannot be eradicated by storm. The 

 patient lingers, and the owner perhaps becomes impatient. The 

 best plan to pursue, under circumstances of this nature, is to 

 turn the animal to grass — that is, if the season be favourable. 

 A run of two or three months' duration is generally necessary 

 to accomplish what is desired. 



Diet. — For particulars with regard to the diet of the 

 patient, see Section YI., page 108. 



CHILL. 

 I use the above term to designate an affection, or rather a 

 state, which may terminate either in direct recovery, or in the 

 manifestation of an inflammatory disease of some important 

 organ or set of organs. When this particular state is present 

 it is impossible to say, with positive certainty, whether further 

 derangement or not will ensue ; all that can be said is, that an 

 abnormal effect is produced, which may terminate in this or 



