STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 759 



Epsom salts, , _ Soz. 



Sweet spirits of nitre, 1 oz. 



Tarter emetic, _ J drachm. 



Digitalis, __ ^ drachm. 



Flour of sulphur, 4 to 6 oz. 



Treacle, _ 16 oz. 



Cocoa olein, _ _ 6oz. 



These ingredients are mixed and given in plenty of warm 

 gruel, for Avhich I use my pig food, boiled Indian meal, with 

 about one-fourtli proportion of pea-meal. On a renewal of the 

 difficulty of breathing or acceleration of pulse, I repeat the bleed- 

 ing to a less degree, say 3 quarts, and give likewise the tartar- 

 emetic and digitalis in the gruel. 



I continue to give, morning and evening, in gruel — 



Sweet spirits of nitre, Joz. to 1 oz. 



Flour of sulphur, 4oz. 



Treacle or sugar, 8oz. 



Cocoa olein, 4 to 6 oz. 



At noon I give gruel, with addition of a little sugar only. The 

 doses of treacle and sulphur are modified so as to keep the bowela 

 moderately open. It will be observed that I give Epsom-salts as 

 the first dose, on account of their quick action, but afterwards I 

 prefer treacle with sulphur. The patient requires watching with 

 the greatest care. The sick room ought to be well ventilated at 

 the top, but kept warm day and night; a depression of tempera- 

 ture or a draught has been observed to disturb the breathing. 

 When the feverish sym])toms have abated, I give oatmeal instead 

 of Indian-meal in the gruel. I continue the cocoa olein in the 

 gruel throughout, with doses of J oz. to 1 oz. sweet nitre, and 3 

 to 4 oz. of ficjur of sulphur. In several cases, when the pulse 

 has become feeble, and below 60 beats per minute, accompanied 

 by weakness and languor, I have given a wine-glass full of brandy 

 in the morning's and evening's gruel with apparent advantage. 

 The attendant is in»<trurted to offer the animal change of food — 

 brewer's grains, bran-mash, a little hay, grass, green rape plant, 

 or other j)allatable material. It is encouraging to find the animal 

 begin to eat and make its selection of f«)od. 



Since I used the precise treatment I have descri])eil, upwards 

 of twenty in succession have recovered. In this number I include 



