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prevent tlie ree'stablisliment of the disease. The instru- 

 ment for bleeding should be a broad-shouldered thumb 

 lancet, and the stream of blood should be full and strong. 

 Some of the blood, from each bleeding, should be set 

 aside in a glass tumbler, and suffered to grow cold, in or- 

 der to note the thickness of the buff-colored, adhesive coai 

 which ^vill appear on the top of it, and which indicates the 

 degree of inflammation at the time the blood was drawn. 

 "We have seen it occupy above one half the depth of the 

 tumbler. As the condition of the blood improves, and 

 the symptoms of the animal decrease, the bleeding may 

 be gradually discontinued. 



The whole of the horse^s chest and sides, up as far as to 

 the elbows, should now be thoroughly blistered, the hair 

 having been previously closely shaved, with an ointment of 

 one part of Spanish flies, four of lard, and one of rosin, 

 well rubbed in. In making the ointment, the rosin and 

 lard should be melted together, and the flies then added. 



A horse with inflammation of the lungs must never be 

 actively purged ; the bowels and lungs act so strongly in 

 sympathy, that inflammation of the former would surely 

 supervene, and prove fatal. The horse must be back-raked, 

 ind clystered with warm gruel containing eight ounces of 

 Epsom salts. Castor oil must never be given ; it is a most 

 dangerous medicine to the horse. Doses of nitre, digitalis 

 and tartar emetic, in the proportion of three drachms of the 

 first, one of the second and one and a halfof the third may 

 be given, morning and evening, until the animal begins to 

 amend, when the dose may be reduced to one-half. The 

 horse must be warmly clothed, but kept in a cool box. 

 As he recovers, his skin should be gently rubbed with a 

 brush. If it do not irritate him ; but his legs must be con- 

 stantly and thoroughly hand-rubbed and bandaged. He 

 should not be coaxed to eat, but may have a little hay to 



