308 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



following cordial, to be drurk in two 

 draughts 



Cinnamon \ an ounce. 



Extract of gentian 1 ounce. 



Red wine 2 pints. 



Should the animal fall into a state of 

 lethargy, you must have recourse to strokes 

 of fire, according to surgical usage. 



This distemper must extend to its extreme 

 degree of gravity before it advances towards 

 its cure ; you need, therefore, not despair until 

 the last moment. At this period of exhaus- 

 tion, the drinks above-mentioned are given 

 up, or you add nutritive beverages to them, 

 such as beef-tea, fat soups, milk, and fari- 

 naceous drinks. 



If the animal holds on, and his appetite 

 returns, which will be shown by the desqua- 

 mation of the nostrils, by the return of rumi- 

 nation, by the habit of the beast to look right 

 and left, to question you in a manner, add cut 

 straw to his nutritive drinks : send him out 

 every day into the open air, and let him return 

 by slow degrees to his habitual feeding. But it 

 is extremely important to watch the intestinal 

 functions ; to diminish and change the food, 



