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water, then rub them well till dry, and bandage them 

 up to the knees and hocks in thick flannel bandages, 

 or cover them round thickly with dry grass. If it 

 is cold weather, put on a warm jhool ; but the horse 

 must remain in as cool a place as possible ; if in a 

 stable, every door and window should be open. In 

 six hours after the bleeding, should the breathing still 

 continue laborious, the ears and legs cadaverously cold, 

 and he still stand in that peculiar stiff position, with 

 the forelegs rather wide apart, open both veins again, 

 and take from each another two or three quarts, and 

 give half a drachm of digitalis, one drachm of eme- 

 tic tartar, and three drachms of nitre, made into a 

 ball with linseed meal and liquorice w r ater, or put 

 them into a drench. Two ounces of the simple oxy- 

 mel,* are also to be given once every eight hours ; 

 and clyster every day, for three or four days, if the 

 bowels are not open, with one ounce of soap and four 

 ounces of Epsom salts, in two gallons of warm water. 

 Nothing must be given to eat for the first forty-eight 

 hours but cold bran rnash, (boiling water poured on 

 bran, and allowed to stand till it is cold,) a handful 

 of green meat occasionally, and the water with the 

 chill taken off. The digitalis must be left out after 

 two days ; i. e. after six doses, and the emetic tartar 

 and nitre after three days.t Beer tonic (page 109,) to 

 be commenced a week after recovery. If you blister 



* See p. 168, for the " OXYMEL." 



+ A horse I had was attacked with violent inflammation of the lungs at 

 BIX o'clock in the afternoon : he stood stiff as a post until two the following 

 morning, when he fell, to all appearance, dead, and cold as marble all over. I 

 was dining out, and did not return till that hour, but a veterinary surgeon 

 was at hand. He was bled in both veins, back-raked, and clystered. Five 

 hours afterwards, both veins were opened again : the horse recovered, not- 

 withstanding the severity of the attack and the neglect of the first eight hours. 



