184 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



strokes, a little behind the blister. The costiveness 

 must be fully removed before the inflammation will 

 subside ; but immediately the dung is softened, no 

 more physic is necessary, nothing but a soothing con- 

 gee clyster.* 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER, OR SPLEEN. 



The first of these is much more common at many 

 stations than the preceding disease. The causes are, 

 the climate, added to not giving physic, or giving that 

 which is of no use, when, from a foul habit, there has 

 long been evident necessity for it. 



Symptoms. Are somewhat between inflammation 

 of the lungs and bowels. The pulse increases as the 

 disease advances, and rises to seventy or a hundred. 

 The horse will sometimes stand, but not with his fore- 

 legs so fixed and apart as when the lungs are affected. 

 The eyes, mouth, and nostrils are always more or less 

 yellow ; but the legs are not so particularly cold. The 

 bowels are always costive, unless the inflammation is 

 very trivial, and then there may be a slight looseness. 

 The head is, generally, being continually turned to 

 the side that is affected, and which, if pressed on, near 

 the middle of the false ribs, will be painful. 



Treatment. Bleedt from six to eight quarts. Blis- 

 ter the side you think affected, about the middle of 

 the false ribs for about a foot square, six inches above 



* A handsome Arab, that had gone through a morning's parade without 

 the slightest sluggishness, was attacked with inflammation of the bowels 

 when led to his stalL The bleeding, &c., having been delayed for twelve 

 hours, he died on the following morning. 



tSee " BLEKDINO," p. 62. 



