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body and legs are of uneven temperature. The nose bag, 

 described on page 127, should be applied. The stable 

 must be warm ; scalded hay should be bandaged to the 

 throat, and repeated as soon as cool ; the body bandaged 

 with flannels dipped in cold water, from the shoulder to 

 the middle of the back, clear around the body of the 

 horse, and renew just as soon as the heat of the body 

 dries the blankets or flannels. Keep the horse on gruel 

 or soft foods. After the horse has recovered, the dry 

 blankets should be worn at least ten days in the same 

 manner. 



Pratts Food, Pratts Animal Regulator or Pratts 

 Condition Powder have curad a number of cases of in- 

 flammation of the air passages, with the care mentioned 

 above, and are great preventives from all acute attacks 

 by the fine condition a horse is kept in by their constant 

 use. As per our note on page 119, to give another 

 remedy, we mention the following to be given every 

 half hour in one dose : One fluid ounce of laudanum ; 

 one fluid ounce of sulphuric ether ; mixed in half a 

 pint of water. If, in the course of a couple of hours, the 

 horse is no better, give the following, dose : Half a 

 drachm of belladonna, taken up in an ounce of water, 

 and twenty drops of tincture of aconite added. Give 

 every three-quarters of an hour to an hour until the horse 



