TREATMENT, 6S7 



carefully regulated dietary; tlie ordinary articles of wliicli, when 

 exhaustion is great, are to be supplemented witli others, such 

 as milk, raw eggs, beaf-tea, and port wine. 



When pain is troublesome and the discharges are very foetid, 

 opium and carbolic acid may be employed with benefit, the 

 acid to be given as carbolized glycerine from two to three 

 drachms, and repeated with the opium every six or four hours. 

 Of the ordinary astringents which in some instances may be 

 given, the best are nitrate of silver in solution, and sulphate of 

 copper, or acetate of lead in combination with opium in bolus. 

 Ipecacuanha, so much employed in dysentery in man, I have 

 tried as powder given with linseed-tea, but have imagined it 

 served the purpose better when combined with opium, one 

 drachm of the former to half a drachm of the latter, made into 

 a ball, and one given two or three times daily. Besides these 

 medicines administered internally, attention ought to be directed, 

 through the use of clothing and friction by hand, to maintain 

 an equable distribution of surface -warmth, and when abdominal 

 pain is troublesome to use turpentine stupes. Moderate cases 

 are fairly hopeful; with the more severe the probabilities of a 

 fatal issue are gfreat. 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



diseases connected with the liver, in which disturbed 



activities or structural changes, or both, are prominent 



features. 



Some General Clinical Characters. 



Hepatic disturbance and change, though in no form so fre- 

 quently occurring, nor yet productive of such serious results 

 in the horse as in man, or even in some other animals which 

 engage our attention, are still with him not to be looked upon 

 as uncommon. Their frequency and severity are here regu- 

 lated by laws and conditions similar to those which operate in 

 other animals. 



The liver being an organ which performs rather complex 

 and important functions, it is easy to understand that, like 



