VAPOUR-BATH FOR HORSES. 
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he wanted a vapour-bath. Accordingly, he had a branch-pipe 
(e) affixed to the main one (c) issuing from the top of the 
boiler, and furnished this, as well as the original branch-pipe (f) 
with a stop-cock (i), enabling him to direct the course of the 
steam, and to turn it on and off at pleasure. The new branch- 
pipe (e), he had made of sufficient length to pass through a par- 
tition wall into an apartment, which we, for distinction's sake, 
may call the bath-room (m), at its entry into which he disconti- 
nued the metallic pipe, substituting for it a flexible tube ( k ), 
which he could as he pleased wind in any direction. The steam 
was now turned on : a torrent of it, full and hot, issued from the 
mouth of the flexible tube : nothing, in fact, appearing wanting 
but the receptacle. 
This was ready : the horse-box, which had been previously 
lined with flannel, and roofed over with hoops and tilting, and 
fitted up, over the doors, before and behind, with canvass cur- 
tains, was moved into the bath-room. The question now was, 
through what part of the box shall the steam enter? The place 
( n ) most judiciously chosen was the side of the apartment, close to 
the flooring, and at a point intermediate between the animal’s 
fore and hind legs, while standing, or mid-distance between the 
front and hind parts of the box; a similar entrance-aperture was 
likewise made through the other side, directly opposite this one, 
to which steam was conveyed through an extension of the tube 
underneath the flooring of the box. Entering in this situation, 
and through two orifices at once, the current of steam imme- 
diately diffuses itself over the apartment, rising in clouds of va- 
pour from the floor underneath the belly of the horse without any 
danger whatever of scalding him. What condensation of the 
steam takes place within the pipes is received by the tube run- 
ning underneath the box, and from it the water distils through a 
waste stop-cock (/). 
Up a sort of platform — an inclined plain, lathed trans- 
versely, to prevent slipping — the horse is led into his bathing- 
place, the doors of which, both back and front, being thrown open, 
and the curtains turned aside, without, in general, any alarm 
or repugnance on his part, or only of such trifling nature as is 
easily removed by coaxing and 'clever handling on the part of 
the groom. The doors are now with caution shut, the curtains 
closed, and in front, with strings or tapes, secured around the 
horse’s neck: it being understood that, on every occasion, the 
animal's head is to he excluded from the bath. This is a rock on 
which those have had their good intentions wrecked who have 
found that a hot-bath increases the patient’s pulse and respiration, 
and on that account does, to use their own words, “ more harm 
than good.” The steam, previously “ got up” by the man at the 
