250 RHEu:\iATis:tr. 



to strengtli and age, will be found sufficient when given every 

 third or fourth hour largely diluted with water. For adult 

 animals three times this quantity will be necessary. 



This treatment must be persevered with for some days, or 

 until obvious benefit is derived from its administration. This 

 is generally sho^vn by abatement of febrile symptoms, as low- 

 ering of temperature, an increased secretion of urine, and 

 relief from pain. 



Should the more active symptoms not seem relieved by this 

 treatment in a few days, there had better be given, alternately 

 with the alkaline solution, a little colchicum wine, with acetated 

 liquor ammonia ; or instead of the bicarbonate and nitrate of 

 potass, the iodide of potassium may be substituted and alter- 

 nated with the colchicum and the acetate of ammonia. The 

 treatment of acute rheumatism by salicylic acid and its com- 

 pounds, while in many cases evidently attended with good 

 results, has not, in my experience with the horse, yielded such 

 continuous and general benefit as the use of those agents 

 mentioned. Both here and with the more truly chronic 

 manifestations of the disease, particularly when pyrexia has 

 disappeared, benefit has sometimes seemed to follow the use 

 for some time of moderate doses of arsenic and quinine, or of 

 ounce doses twice daily of Donovan's solution. 



Locally all stimulating agents — the usually resorted-to reme- 

 dies — ought at the earlier stages to be carefully avoided. 

 Instead, apply continuously some cooling or evaporating lotion, 

 or swathe the part, where this is possible, in woollen bandages 

 kept damp with a saturated solution of bicarbonate and nitrate 

 of potass ; or, where the pain is excessive, warm poultices are 

 more likely to attbrd relief, or woollen bandages kept warm and 

 moist by means of hot water, medicated with tincture of 

 opium and a small quantity of tincture of aconite, the animal 

 being at the same time kept perfectly quiet. Should the cha- 

 racteristic local symptoms of pain and difficulty in locomotion 

 not become ameliorated during the first week, or even in all 

 cases of a less acute nature, which have nevertheless continued 

 persistent as to their localization and severity, a somewhat 

 different mode of treatment may be necessary and productive 

 of good results. Local stimulating applications may now be 

 had recourse to, varying in strength I'rom ordinary soap to 



