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connection with haenioglobinuria or as the result of poisons 

 ingested the prospect of recovery is often good. 



Treatment. In cases due to poisoning the use of antidotes and 

 ehniinating agents will be effectual, and in transient and curable 

 diseases like pulmonary disorder, hsenioglobinuria and paralysis 

 the appropriate treatment will restore. In the more inveterate or 

 constitutional cases all treatment is liable to prove ineffectual. 

 At the outset some apparent amelioration may be obtained from 

 salicylic acid, salicylate of soda, bicarbonate, acetate, citrate, 

 sulphate or chloride of soda, nitro-muriatic acid and other 

 choligogues. Blisters to thi perichondrium may also be em- 

 plo3'ed. Later, when degeneration of the liver has reached an 

 extreme point, these will be of no avail. Cadeac recommends 

 acetanilid, antipyrin, and benzo-naphthol largely on their anti- 

 septic merits, and Jong claims a recover}- in a horse under daily 

 doses of 12 grains of codeine. Opium has long been employed 

 in man with partially good results, and croton-chloral, strychnia, 

 phosphoric acid, iodoform and ergot are recommended in differ- 

 ent cases. 



One of the most beneficial agents is skim milk or buttermilk as 

 an exclusive diet, and this may be to a large extent adopted for 

 the horse. Under its use the sugar may entirely disappear, and 

 though rheumatoid pains in the joints may be brought on, 

 these usually subside on withdrawing the source of lactic acid. 

 They may further be met by the use of salicjdates. The greatest 

 care should be taken of the general health, an open air life, with 

 protection against colds and storms, and a healthy condition of 

 bowels, kidneys and skin being particularly important. 



The impaired digestion and assimilation usually demand car- 

 minatives, stomachics, bitters, and mineral acids, particularly the 

 nitro-nmriatic. With the same intent a fair amount of exercise 

 short of absolute fatigue shoidd be secured. But each case will 

 require a special study and treatment con.sonant to its special at- 

 tendant lesions, its causative functional disorders, and its stage. 

 One case may demand attention to bacteridian poisoning, one to 

 a better regimen and diet, one to liver disease, and one to disease 

 of the brain, etc. After this treatment specially directed to the 

 abnormal function or structure, would come the more specific 

 treatment for mellituria which would be more or less applicable 

 to the general glycolytic disorder. 



