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sides extensively. Let the legs be kept warm 

 by alaiost constant hand-rubbing; and warm 

 clothinjv must never be omitted. Nothin<i: is 

 more pernicious in this complaint than com- 

 pelling the animal to breathe the impure air 

 and stimulating vapours of a close stable; this 

 is indeed so obvious a truth, that it would be 

 unnecessary to mention it, were it not a con- 

 stant practice with grooms on this occasion to 

 stop every crevice they can find, by which pure 

 uir might be admitted, and the noxious. ex- 

 halations sulfered to escape. 



If the disease do not appear to abate in 

 twelve hours after the bleeding, particularly if 

 it have become more violent, let the operation 

 be repeated, and with the same freedom as at 

 first. We need not be apprehensive, at this 

 early period of the disease, of any dangerous 

 debility ensuing from the loss of so much 

 blood; on the contrary, it will tend to re- 

 establish strength, by subduing the inilam- 

 mation on which the fever depends. It has 

 rarely been found necessary to bleed several 

 times, and that very plentifully; but it must 

 be recollected, that when the fever has existed 

 for some time, and has nearly exhausted the 

 horse's strength, bleeding seldom does good, 



