Chapter XI. 



NURSING AND ADMINISTERING 

 MEDICINES. 



As with the human patient so with the horse, the 

 value of sympathetic and intelligent nursing during ill- 

 ness goes a long way in aiding recovery. It is ahvays 

 wise to anticipate the possibility of the illness being of 

 a contagious or infectious nature, and therefore the 

 afflicted animal should be isolated. Even in cases of 

 accidents the desirability of ensuring quiet renders this 

 advisable. The patient will have a better chance in a 

 loose box than if he is kept tied up in a stall. The question 

 of providing extra warmth by means of clothing, flannel 

 bandages on the legs, Arc, will, especially if the com- 

 plaint is of a debilitating character, have to be con- 

 sidered, and if, despite the bandages, the legs are found 

 to be cold, the bandages should be removed and the 

 extremities well rubbed wdth the hands until warmth is 

 restored, when they must be replaced. 



In pulmonary troubles care must be taken to keep the 

 temperature of the box as equable as possible ; at the 

 same time ncthino; must be dene which would interfere 



