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A country horse doctor of my acquaintance, who is a good, 

 deal of a genius in his way, treated laminitis with decided success 

 as follows : 



" First, put the feet of the horse, up to the knees or over, into as 

 hot water as he can bear, to which add one pound of mustard, and 

 have a man on each side with a sponge apply the water from the 

 tub to the chest and shoulders for twenty-five or thirty minutes, 

 adding more hot water as it cools. Next, take him from the bath 

 to a close stall, and cover with three or four heavy blankets, and 

 let the men rub his legs for half an hour, then bleed in plate-veins 

 (the large veins running down the inside of the leg, above the knee), 

 taking from a pint to a quart of blood from each leg ; after which 



FIG. 744. A sectional view of Pig. 741. An exact drawing of specimen 

 showing grain of new growth of soft, spongy horn. 



apply some moderately stimulating liniment to the legs and shoul- 

 ders to keep up the circulation, and give a dose of physic. .Remove 

 one blanket after another as he cools off, leaving on the last one, 

 and give some soft feed. On the second day exercise the horse a 

 little, and usually on the fourth day ho is in a condition for work."* 



J have included this variety of treatment the better to give a 

 clear understanding to stablemen and others as to what they can do 

 in an emergency. The first method, which I will call Summer- 

 ville's, I know to be entirely reliable ; at all events, I have not 

 known of a single case out of a large number treated on this plan 



* The horse oil no account should be put to work so soon if it can be avoided. 



