2i8 CLINICAL vetf:rinarv medicine and surgery. 



eyes are treated with lukewarm fomentations and warm collyria 

 containing atropine, creolin, or boric acid. If fever remains high anti- 

 pyretics and cold enemata (to which li to 3 drachms of carbolic acid 

 per quart may be added) are useful. When influenza is complicated 

 with laminitis, hypodermic injections of arecoline or pilocarpine are 

 valuable ; the feet should be surrounded with moist compresses^ 

 frequently saturated with cold water. 



In the various forms of influenza, moderate doses of alcohol, and 

 especially brandy, may be given either in the drinking-water or in the 

 form of electuary. You have often seen valuable effects thus obtained. 

 The mode in which alcohol acts has long been discussed, but whether 

 it undergoes a series of transformations in the blood, whether it 

 principally affects the nervous system or nutrition, is of little importance. 

 What we do know is that it gives excellent results. In six of our 

 patients treatment consisted in application of mustard plasters and the 

 administration in mashes or gruel of sulphate of soda, bicarbonate of 

 soda, salicylate of soda, and brandy. For several I also ordered ^ to i^ 

 drachms of powdered digitalis and cold carbolic enemata. All cases 

 recovered very rapidly. 



I wish to impress on 30U that in the benign form of influenza 

 internal medication is only of secondary importance. I left two 

 patients to take care of themselves, without assisting them in any way 

 whatever, only watching them in case it should become needful to 

 intervene. No necessit}* arose, and both recovered as quickly as those 

 treated. 



