The Horse in Sickness 315 



that the animal's temperature constantly varies, and 

 an odd degree or so of change from normal has 

 very probably no alarming significance. The tem- 

 perature, about ninety-eight degrees in health, may 

 be approximated by placing the fingers under the 

 tongue, upon the bars of the lower jaw. 



The pulse, running at about forty degrees in 

 health, and then pliant and full, not hard and wiry, 

 may be found below the jaw. 



The kidneys and bowels should be watched and 

 kept active; the strength must be maintained, if 

 food is refused, by drenches of " hay tea," eggs, 

 and milk ; in desperate cases, whiskey, or whiskey 

 and eggs, etc. The veterinary is everywhere resident 

 nowadays, and the telephone is so universal that no 

 time need elapse before help is at hand. The nurs- 

 ing, however, is the caretaker's and the owner's task, 

 and upon them falls the burden of intelligently carry- 

 ing out the directions given. 



Sooner or later we all of us are probably fated to 

 purchase a " green " or unacclimated horse, and the 

 fatalities attending this condition are astonishingly 

 frequent. 



