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mations, spasms or colics, fluxes, eruptions, and glandular 

 affections. And for all of these disorders we are satisfied that 

 proper attention to hygiene, as understood by the term Hy- 

 dropathy or Water-Treatment, is as much superior to drug med- 

 ication as it has proved to be in the case of human beings 

 similarly affected. 



Fever is easily known by the languor and lassitude which 

 the animal manifests, with great indisposition to exercise, fol- 

 lowed by chills or shivering, and this succeeded by preternatu- 

 ral heat on the surface, loss of appetite, furred tongue, frequent 

 or hard or bounding pulse, etc. The animal should be placed 

 in a clean, quiet, well- ventilated room, protected from currents 

 of cold air in winter or the scorching rays of the sun in sum- 

 mer, and the temperature should be kept at a uniform and 

 moderate degree continually. 



When the skin becomes very hot, it should be washed or 

 bathed all over, and a blanket or two immediately applied, so 

 as to promote moderate perspiration. Or the wet sheet may 

 be applied, taking care to cover it well with blankets, so as 

 to arrest chilliness. When the sheet becomes quite warm, it 

 should be removed, and the surface washed with cold water ; 

 and if the fever heat continues, it may be re-applied for an hour 

 at a time, two or three times a day, until the morbid heat is 

 entirely subdued. 



The same general plan of treatment, with a slight modifi- 

 cation, applies to all inflammatory complaints. With domestic 

 animals as with human beings, the organs most liable to acute 

 inflammation are the lungs and the bowels, and the only spe- 

 cialty of treatment in these affections, in addition to the gen- 

 eral plan applicable to the constitutional disturbance we call 

 fever, is the continual application of wet cloths well covered 

 with dry ones to the chest or bowels, as either is the seat of 

 the inflammation, and the employment of copious enemas of 

 tepid water to free the bowels. 



Spasmodic diseases of all kinds, and all the varieties of colic, 

 are the results of local obstruction caused by over-exertion, 



