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lengthwise aioiig the back, and over this two or three warm horse 

 cloths placed; the straw is intended to aid the ventilation of the 

 body and in getting up the heat; the legs should be hand-rubbed 

 and then bandaged with thick flannel, and the ears also be firmly 

 rubbed the way the hair lies; if the skin generally is dry and there 

 is no sweat, an effort must be made to induce a healthy perspira- 

 tion by clothing the animal with several thick cloths and keeping 

 the hood on when not rubbing the ears; if the horse will drink 

 let him have as much tepid water as he will take, or previously 

 boiled oatmeal may be mixed with the water as an appetizer; as 

 the perspiration is established care must be taken that the animal 

 does not experience another chill; four men, two on each side, 

 should set to work with straw wisps to dress it down for five 

 minutes, after which the clothing should be replaced and continued 

 attention given until the coat is dry and the respirations are calm 

 and natural. 



PNEUMONIA. 



Under this heading we shall include all the forms which by 

 pathologists are dealt with individually according to the particular 

 tissues affected, as it is not necessary to trouble the reader with a 

 consideration of these minutiae because such differences as exist 

 will be treated of under the various remedies according to the 

 special symptoms developed by each respectively, we will, how- 

 ever, just explain that by pneumonia we refer to inflammation of 

 the true lung substance, which consists of the connective tissue 

 that serves to support and maintain in position the vast net work 

 of air tubes that ramify its substances and form so large an integ- 

 ral proportion of the breathing organs; pneumonia is, therefore, 

 a simple term which applies to one description of tissue; but so 

 intimately associated are all the component parts of the lungs, and 

 so nearly allied the one with the other, that as has already been 

 stated in a former chapter, it generally happens that, by a combi- 

 nation of circumstances rarely combatted, an inflammation in one 

 tissue extends to that adjoining, hence simple pneumonia assumes 

 a compound aspect when the bronchial tubes are also affected and 

 is desribed by pathologists as broncho- pneumonia, while yet again 

 a second compound inflammatory condition is established when 

 the disease extends to the pleura, the fine membrane which en- 



