CH. I.] TREATMENT OF PULMONARY PATIENTS. 211 



awhile the first symptoms of hide-bound, that goes off 

 slowly. When those favourable symptoms appear, 

 much assiduity in the minor helps to recovery should 

 be kept up, though further bleeding will be evidently 

 unnecessary. It would do positive harm, by de- 

 bilitating the patient, as the popular phrase goes ; 

 or as we should say, weakening him too much. 



We have presumed that the patient has been 

 already blooded in this as in all other inflammatory 

 attacks, and that to an amount commensurate to the 

 virulence of the attack, even as much as five or six 

 quarts, if the animal is of full habit. Of this pro- 

 portionate degree, or quantity, let the reader more 

 precisely inform himself by turning back to what 

 is said on this head and the pulse, under general 

 inflammation, ox fever, at pages 172 and 178. The 

 operator will of course follow up the bleeding with 

 the purgative ball prescribed at page 185, in the 

 case of general inflammatory disorders; or, if the 

 patient be a tender one with some breeding in him, 

 rather let the laxative plan be substituted instead of 

 the purgative ; to which end, the same ball instead 

 of being given at once, may be divided into three, 

 and given on each of three successive days. In 

 every case of bleeding, a laxative should follow, as 

 before directed, and clysters of water-gruel be ad- 

 ministered in aid of both, at intervals of three or 

 four hours. Neglect not tolerably warm clothing; 

 and by good hand-rubbing, beginning [gently, for 

 'tis sore] at the neck and chest, and so proceeding 

 towards the hind quarters, endeavour to obtain ex- 



