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DISEASES AND THEIE TEEATMENT. 



Treatment. In the outset, especially when occurring as a 

 primary affection, and not as a consequence of another disease, copi- 

 ous blood-letting will be advisable from four to six quarts, or 

 sufficient to make an impression on the pulse. He should be 

 turned into a well-littered loose-box, and allowed to roll as he 

 pleases. The bowels are obstinately constipated, but drastic pur- 

 gatives are apt to increase the inflammation ; our utmost efforts 

 must therefore be directed to open them by copious injections (of 



FIG. 788. A sure indication of Inflammation of the BoweJs. 



linseed-tea, soap and water, tobacco-smoke, or infusion of tobacco,) 

 back-raking, etc. A quart of linseed-oil, with two ounces of 

 laudanum, should be given, and repeated, in half the dose, every 

 one or two hours, if required. Fomentations of hot water must 

 be constantly applied to the belly, or bags wrung out of boil- 

 ing water. Where, from the violent tossing of the animal, this is 

 impracticable, blister the belly with tincture of cantharides or 

 mustard, and turpentine. 



If the symptoms do not moderate in a few hours, the pulse 

 continues full, and the legs and ears not very cold, a second bleed- 

 ing may be advisable ; but this is seldom the case, as the prostra- 

 tion is rapid, the pulse becoming small, wiry, and almost imper- 



