58 The Management and Treatment of the Morse, 



through the diseased organs, helping to exhaust and 

 break down their structure, and thereby cause irrepa- 

 rable damage. Another serious evil is that we have 

 sympathetic disturbance from absorption of the fly. I 

 have always adopted mustard in the early stages of influ- 

 enza, and with marked effect. Mr. Mavor, I am told, uses 

 the vapour bath with great success. In many cases I 

 have derived much benefit from giving the patient 

 sulphate of magnesia in four-ounce doses twice a day, 

 as a febrifuge, alterative, and purifier. Rowels and 

 setons are sometimes used, but do more harm than 



good In therapeutics my mode of 



proceeding is similar to that which I adopt in simple 

 influenza; keep the patient's head to the open door 

 day and night, and give stimulating tonic. Some prac- 

 tical veterinary surgeons give iodide of potassium, and 

 also chlorate of potass, but not having given them myself 

 I cannot speak of their effects. Diuretic medicine is 

 undoubtedly good in removing oedema and other deposits, 

 but have no power to arrest the process of effusion and 

 exudations. Contradictory as it may appear to my 

 readers, I incline to the opinion that if the real truth 

 could be fully known, it would be found that effusion is 

 actually facilitated during the action of diuretic medicine. 

 This is known, that during the action of cathartic medi- 

 cine, which abstracts the watery part of the blood by 

 way of the bowels, as diuretics do by the kidneys, the 

 carthral action (the process of effusion) goes on more 

 rapidly. Some patients will rally to a certain point, 

 then become stationary for several days, the pulse stand- 

 ing at 60, 72, or 80, the symptoms neither indicating 



