78 INFLUENZA. 



In those forms where the abdominal compKcations are 

 prominent features, the horse inclined to be restless, and occa- 

 sionally lying down and rising again, as if suffering from colic, 

 with a confined condition of the bowels, it will be needful to 

 give our attention to relieve this restlessness and pain ; ene- 

 mata of tepid water or tepid water and oil, with the applica- 

 tion to the abdomen of woollen cloths wrung from pretty 

 warm water, are often sufficient to attain the end desired. 



Where the pain is more persistent, or where the confined 

 state of the bowels is accompanied with a distinct yellow con- 

 dition of the visible mucous membranes, it will most probably 

 be needful to exhibit a moderate dose of linseed oil, to which 

 has been added one or two ounces of tincture of opium, or 

 from ten to fifteen drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite, 

 while the hot-water applications to the abdomen may be suj)- 

 plemented with smart friction with soaj) or ammonia liniment ; 

 while where pain is the prominent feature, and not accom- 

 panied by marked constipation, it is readily enough relieved by 

 subcutaneous injection of the solutio 'morphia hypodermica 

 B.P. 



When both pain and constipation have continued more or 

 less troublesome for some days, with a foul condition of the 

 mouth and tongue, the animal all the time continuing to par- 

 take occasionally of a little mash, an endeavour ought to be 

 made to induce it to take along with the mash a certain quan- 

 tity of linseed oil, or a rather full allowance of sulphate of 

 soda. In such cases, the exhibition twice daily in bolus of 

 i half a drachm of opium and twenty grains of calomel, together 

 with the oil, Avill prove efficacious in removing or relieving the 

 pain and confined condition of the bowels. 

 , In those manifestations of the enteric type where there is 

 not much obvious pain, but in which the lesions arc largely 

 exhibited in connection with the mucous membrane of the 

 alimentary canal, and where circumscribed ha^morrhagic 

 effusions are apt to occur, good has been observed to follow 

 the combination of the simple salines with full and frequent 

 doses of salicylic acid, followed after a few days by the addition 

 of one of the mineral acids. In these cases where collapse 

 seems imminent, a free use of alcohol is often demanded. 

 The rheumatoid symptoms accompanying certain forms of 



