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The bandages should be removed at least twice daily or oftener; if the legs 
are cold, the limb orlimbs hand-rubbed to restore warmth by friction ; and then 
the bandages are to be re-applied at once. 
Cold Bandages.—Chamois leather bandages are the best suited for this 
purpose, as they retain the moisture longer than any other. Linen bandages 
answer just as well when they can be kept constantly wet with water. 
Sweating Bandages are very useful in reducing enlargements, and to gain 
their full effect a sweating bandage should be made by covering a wet linen 
bandage with any material that prevents evaporation, such as waterproof sheeting 
or oilcloth. After such a bandage has been applied for some days, an ordinary 
cold bandage should replace it, otherwise the skin is apt to become hard and 
fissured. 
Komenting Bandages consist of a flannel bandage soaked in hot water, 
which is rolled round the limb, and, as in the sweating bandage, must be imme- 
diately covered by non-porous material; and over these apply a dry bandage, 
By this method warmth and moisture will be retained for a considerable time. 
Baths.—The value of baths for the preservation of health and for cure of 
disease amongst the domesticated animals has never, we think, been fully 
appreciated. , 
Tt is very desirable to change the diet frequently in sickness; horses soon 
become tired of any particular food. It is useless attempting to force food 
on a sick animal until he shows some inclination for it. When extreme weak- 
ness has to be combated, strengthening, stimulating, and easily digested food must 
be given, such as milk, eggs, stale bread, biscuits, &e. A quart of stout, ale, or 
porter may be given two or three times a day. Scalded oats, with a little salt 
added, will tempt sick horses when they have refused all other food, and this 
will also be found beneficial when convalescence is nearly completed. 
Water—Unless affected with diarrhoea, dysentery, or diabetes, animals do 
not injure themselves by taking too much water or watery fluids, but are often 
rendered uncomfortable, while recovery is retarded, by undue restriction, A 
supply of water should always be within the patient’s reach. Cold water never 
does harm, and is more palatable and refreshing than when given tepid. 
Grooming.—Little of this as possible, so as not to inconvenience or irritate 
a weakly patient. Take off the clothes; shake or change them once a day; gentle 
hand-rubbing of the skin and also sponging of the nostrils and dock, and 
in some cases the whole body, with weak yimegar and water are generally 
refreshing to a sick animal. “rm 
Exercise.—Although it proves a health-restorer, improving appetite and 
promoting the several excretory functions, care must be taken that it is not 
ordered too early or carried to excess. 
A few lines on the curative advantages of tepid, not cold, water would 
perhaps not be out of place here. 
Cold Baths (temperature of 60 degrees Fahr.), when judiciously used, are 
in many cases very beneficial. 
The cold bath gives tone to and braces up the strictures of an animal which 
may have become weak or deficient in vital energy, and nothing conduces to 
obtain these effects so readily as a bath in the sea, which, owing to its saline 
ingredients and the constant movements of the waves, is more exhilarating than 
fresh water at rest. 
Healthful reaction is further encouraged by thorough drying, hand-rubbing, 
and clothing. 
Tepid Baths (from 65 degrees to 85 degrees Fahr.)—Ivritating or noxious 
matters are removed from the skin, circulation is equalised, excessive temperature 
reduced, thirst is allayed. Such baths are, therefore, grateful to heated and 
over-taxed horses, 
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