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drinking water from the start. I^lanket the body. Eub the legs until 

 they are warm and then put bandages on them from the hoofs up as 

 far as they are cold. If warmth can not be re-established in the legs 

 by hand-rubbing alone, apply the liniment as recommended in the treat- 

 ment of bronchitis. 



The bandages should be removed once or twice every day, the legs 

 well rubbed, and the bandages re-applied. Hub well over the affected 

 side an application of the liniment mentioned in the treatment of sore 

 throat. The application may be repeated in four or five days. Do not 

 use mustard ; no doubt about its acting, and acting quickly, too, but 

 experience teaches that it is not so good as something less irritating 

 and more prolonged in its beneficial effects. Much harm is often done 

 by clipping off hair and rubbing in powerful escharotic blistering com- 

 pounds. They do positive injury and retard recovery, and should not 

 be allowed. Much benefit may be derived from hot applications to the 

 sides of the chest if the facilities are at hand to app]3" them. If the 

 weather be not too cold, and if the animal is in a comfortable stable, the 

 following method may be tried : Have a tub of hot water handy to the 

 stable door ; soak a woolen blanket in the water, then quickly wring as 

 much water as possible out of it and wrap it around the chest. See 

 that it fits closely to the skin ; do not allow it to sag down so that air 

 may get between it and the skin. Now wrap a dry blanket over the 

 wet hot one. The hot blanket should be renewed every half hour, and 

 while it is off being wetted and wrung, the dry one should remain over 

 the wet part of the chest to prevent reaction. The hot applications 

 should be kept up for three or four hours, and when stopped, the skin 

 should be quickly rubbed as dry as possible, an application of liniment 

 rabbed over the wet part, and a dry blanket snugly fitted over the 

 animal ; and especial care should be taken to cover with it the wet part 

 of the skin. If the hot applications appear to benefit, they may be 

 tried on three or four consecutive days. Unless every facility and cir- 

 cumstance favors the application of heat in the foregoing manner do 

 not attempt it. If the weather is very cold, or any of the details are 

 omitted, more harm than good may result. In the majority of cases, 

 warm clothing to the body, bandages to the legs, and the liniment ap- 

 plied to legs and chest will suffice. 



It is iiossible that cases occur that may be slightly benefited by bleed- 

 ing, but the non-expert is certainly unable to discriminate in such in- 

 stances, and therefore blood-letting should never be practiced. Indeed, 

 many veterinary practitioners of great experience wholly condemn the 

 practice of bleeding in pneumonia, as positively hurtful. When pneu- 

 monia follows another disease the system is always more or less debili- 

 tated, and requires the careful use of stinuilants from the beginning; 

 to still further weaken the animal by tapping him (if the expression 

 may be used), and letting escape in a stream the very source of his 

 remaining strength, is one of the most effectual methods of retarding 

 recovery, even if it does not hasten a fatal termination. 



