CHAP. V.] EFFECT OF INFLAMMATORY FEVER. 541 



and frog, besides the foregoing, have been resorted 

 to, and among these the admixture of vinegar, 

 alegar, verjuice, or solution of nitre with the clay, 

 with the stopping, &c. are well calculated to answer 

 the purposes intended. Rubbing the knees with 

 turpentine is also serviceable. 



Physic would not of course be neglected at the 

 earliest stage of lameness, adapted to the previous 

 state of the patient's bodily health, and calculated to 

 lower the access of inflammation, which so much 

 pain must naturally produce. Either of the three 

 evacuations being suppressed, or imperfectly per- 

 formed, must be restored, and a purgative, an 

 urine-ball, or a diaphoretic powder be administered 

 as occasion requires, and opportunity presents itself: 

 of course, neither of those would be given while the 

 animal is out of doors. 



