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three-fold ratio, and the animal becomes weaker 

 and weaker every moment, and, therefore, less able 

 to bear up against the attack. In all cases, be 

 quick, for ruin is going on with rapid strides, 

 whenever the animal shows signs of great internal 

 pain. Fresh air, diluting liquids, and clysters, in 

 all cases of inflammation whatsoever, are found of 

 as much service in the restoration of health, as the 

 best active medicines that can be administered; 

 the first mentioned most positively so, unless the 

 animal perspire greatly at the time, or it suffers 

 under a fit of shivering. Danger is to be appre- 

 hended in the latter case, and the fresh air need 

 not then be admitted ; but if shivering is suc- 

 ceeded by sweating, or even a small degree of 

 moist heat, it may be considered as the crisis of 

 the disorder, when we may conclude something 

 has taken place that is favourable to the cure — of 

 which more particulars in the proper place. Con- 

 tinual shivering, by the way, denotes the termi- 

 nation of all inflammatory diseases in death ; 



cordials in such cases may do good, but more fre- 

 quently accelerate the catastrophe ; whilst the com- 

 fortable diluting liquid — water-gruel, will afford 

 relief in some measure, and can do no harm. But 

 when the symptoms abate, fresh air, that issues 

 not in streams, is, of all other restoratives, that 

 upon which we place the most reliance ; even re- 

 moval to a fresh stall, or up and down the stable, 

 effects great changes in the animal's spirits, that 

 cannot fail to strike the eye of an attentive observer, 



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