832 DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. 



stubborn, as is rarely the case, a second ball may be given after 

 an interval of four or five days. All the cases coming under my 

 observation in the Infirmary during the year in which I was con- 

 nected with it, and all that have been treated under my super- 

 vision since then, invariably yielded to this treatment. If the 

 case has run two or three days without treatment, or not been 

 treated properly, I would advise opening both toes by thinning 

 out their soles, and the feet put into moderately hot water so as 

 to extract a quart or more of blood from each. If this cannot be 



FIG. 739. Showing the great change of structure produced by severe 

 inflammation. 



done, then open the veins freely at the coronet. If treated as di- 

 rected it is rarely that the attack will not pass off in four or five 

 days. 



Dr. Charles Meyer advises the following mode of treatment, 

 which he has used with great success: 



" If the animal is taken within the past twenty-four hours, have 

 the shoes removed, and put the feet into a tub of hot water. Wind 

 flannel wrappings or bandages around both legs up to the elbows, 

 and keep them constantly wet with hot water for from two to three 

 hours. In the meantime have the horse well covered with blankets, 

 and give the following remedy : 



30 drops fluid extract aconite. 



1 ounce oil of sassafras. 



2 ounces salt-petre. 

 1 pint linseed oil, 



