The horse and other live stock . allon to six quarts is the average quantity, but incolic a much larger amount is required. Lotions are applied by means of cloth bandages, if usedto the legs; or -by a piece of cloth tied over the parts, if toany other surface. Fomentations are very serviceable to the horse in all recentexternal inflammations; and it is astonishing what may bedone by a careful person, with warm water alone, and a good-sized sponge. Sometimes, by means of an elastic tube andstop-cock, warm water is conducted in a continuous streamover an inflamed part, as in severe wounds, etc.,
The horse and other live stock . allon to six quarts is the average quantity, but incolic a much larger amount is required. Lotions are applied by means of cloth bandages, if usedto the legs; or -by a piece of cloth tied over the parts, if toany other surface. Fomentations are very serviceable to the horse in all recentexternal inflammations; and it is astonishing what may bedone by a careful person, with warm water alone, and a good-sized sponge. Sometimes, by means of an elastic tube andstop-cock, warm water is conducted in a continuous streamover an inflamed part, as in severe wounds, etc., in which thisplan is found wonderfully successful in allaying the irritation,which is so likely to occur in the nervous system of the vessel of warm water is placed above the level of the horsesback, and a small india-rubber tube leads from it to a spongefixed above the parts, from which the water runs to the groundas fast as it is over-filled. This plan can be very easily carriedout by any person of ordinary U}i\k^Hmsz^ The many excellent qualities of the horseare accompanied by some defects, whichoccasionally amount to vices. These may in1^1 part be attributed to natural temper; for manhimself scarcely presents more peculiarities of temper and dis-position than does the horse. The majority of these disagree-able or dangerous habits in the animal now under considerationare without doubt attributable to a faulty education. The in-structor was ignorant and brutal, and the animal instructedbecomes obstinate and vicious. It is proposed to mentionsome of the more glaring of these vices, suggesting in connec-tion with each whatever remedies or palliatives experience hassuggested. C198) BAULKING OR JIBBING. 199 HESTIVENESS. This stands in the front rank of all the vicious qualities ofthe horse, being at once the most annoying and the most dan-gerous of all. It is the direct and natural result of bad temperand worse education; and, like all other habits based upon
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