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LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
though 1 am not quite certain that any of them exceed much, 
if any thing, in efficacy, simple cold water, providing the water 
be cold, and the bandage* wetted with it be re-dipped often 
enough to maintain its low temperature. For those who think 
otherwise, however, I subjoin a couple of formulae : — 
R Ammoniae Hydrochlorat Jij 
Aceti Jiv 
Aquae Jxij 
M. fiat Embrocatio. 
R iEtheris Sulphuric. 
Sprts. Yini Rect. aa Jij 
Tinct. Lavandulae co i 
Aquae Jxij 
M. f. Embrocatio. 
As the tumefied parts grow cool, feel firmer, and bear pressure 
better, the bandage — which, to prove effectual, must be put on 
secundum artem — may be applied with more and more tightness ; 
pressure through such means being vastly conducive, not only to 
the bracing and strengthening of the parts, but to the promotion 
of absorption of any remaining deposits in the sprained parts. In 
fact, continued repose — which maybe gradually converted, first, 
into exercise in a loose box, and, subsequently, into walking exer- 
cise — with the unremitting application of the bandage, will be 
the best means we can adopt towards preparing the limb to once 
again sustain the animal’s work. 
The Treatment for a severe Sprain will, in its primary 
stage, differ more in degree than in kind from what I have been 
prescribing. In a violent case, the sooner after the accident the 
thick or high-heeled shoe can be put on the better : delay here is 
dangerous; since in a short time the leg may become so swollen 
and painful as to render handling or flexion of it too distressing 
to be borne, while the shoe is taken off to be replaced by another ; 
a circumstance which will not fail to turn out a source of regret 
in the course of the treatment. 
The fomentation will here require to be still more perseveringly 
laboured at. The dose of physic will require to be still stronger. 
And there will be no question about blood-letting ; and blood in 
this case had better, indeed must, be taken from the plat vein, the 
leg being too tender to endure the foot being lifted and handled. 
And a larger quantity of blood should be abstracted — such a 
quantity, indeed, as may be said, on the first occasion at least, to 
have some effect on the system. These several remedies must 
be repeated, time after time, and perseveringly persisted in, 
according to the progress of the case, and other circumstances, 
which the judicious practitioner will not fail to note; the object 
being to subdue inflammatory action, and with that to allay suffer- 
ing ; which latter, on occasions, for a time at least, becomes our 
* Linen bandages for the legs should be of Russia duck, 3 yards in length 
and 3£ inches in breadth. 
