L72 HOW TO PHI SIC A HORSE. 



le shculd bs slightly cleaned-; -warmly and dryly lit 

 ered down, if possible, in a loose box, and should be 

 ed, foi two or three days, on warm bran mashes, and suf- 

 bred to drink warm water only. It is evident that the 

 ibove treatment, which is stimulating, would be probably 

 atal, as it would aggravate all the worst features, in a case 

 if inflammation, which must be treated, as nearly as pos- 

 ible, on the opposite plan — that is, antiphlogistically. 



Inflammation of the Bowels. — The first step, in 

 lecided cases where the extremities are cold and the pulse 

 ery quick and very feeble — observe, here, that fifty-five is 

 ^ei'y quick, indicating considerable fever, ,and seventy-five 

 )erilously quick — is to take eight or ten quarts of blood as 

 won as the malady appears, — ^for there is no other malady 

 hat so quickly runs its course. If this do not relieve the 

 )ain, and render the pulse more moderate, and fuller, and 

 ounder, four or five quarts more may be taken, without 

 my regard to the weakness of the animal. That weak- 

 less is a part of the disease, and, when the inflammation is 

 ubdued by the loss of blood, the weakness will disappear. 

 iVe have said that most of the acute diseases of the. horse 

 md the man are closely similar, and their treatment analo- 

 gous. In acute inflammation of the • bowels there is an 

 sxception. The human practitioner properly uses strong 

 )urgatives, in cases of acute inflammation of the bowels. 

 The irritablility of the horse's bowels will not allow their 

 (xhibition. The most that can be done is, to throw up 

 lopious injections — they can hardly be too copious — oi 

 bin gruel, in which half a pound of Epsom salts, or half 

 in ounce of Barbadoes aloes, has been dissolved. The 

 lorse should be encouraged to drink freely of warm, thin 

 rruel, and he should have a draught, every six hours, ol 

 vann water, with from one to two drachms, — never more, — 

 if aloes dissolved in it. Above all. the whole bellv should 



