MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 439 



" thing that would tend to irritate the animal when in a state of 

 " health. 



" With regard to diet. — In acute diseases no food whatever 

 *' ought to be given until improvement has taken place, and even 

 *' then only in a sparing manner ; the articles of diet most suitable 

 " are bran, oats, hay, carrots, Swede turnips, and green food, 

 "either grass or clover. 



*' The bran may be given either dry or wetted, whichever way 

 " the animal prefers it. 



" Oats may be given mixed with the bran, either raw and 

 " crushed, or whole and boiled. 



" It is necessary to keep the animal without food or water half 

 "an hour before and after administering the medicine. 



" Repetition of the dose. — In acute diseases it is necessary to 

 *' repeat the dose every Jive^ ten., fifteen., or twenty minutes. 



"In less acute diseases every two., four., six., or eight hours. 



*' In chronic diseases once in twenty-four hours is sufficient." 



The following are the directions given for the treatment of a few 

 of the more simple diseases of horses, and they are included here 

 rather by way of illustration than as a part of a complete system, 

 which, of course, it would be impossible within such narrow limits 

 to give : — 



" GREASE. 



" Remedies. — Thuja occidentalis., Secale cornutum., Arsenicum., 

 ^^ Mercurius vivus., and Sulphur. 



" Thuja occidenta/is^ both internally and externally, if there are 

 " bluish or brownish excrescences, which bleed on the least touch, 

 *' and there is a discharge of fetid ichor. 



" Dose. — Six drops three times a day ; at the same time the 

 " parts may be bathed with the strong tincture night and morning. 



" Secale cornutum and Arsenicum mav be used in alternation, if 

 " there is a watery swelling or dark-looking ulcers, with fetid dis- 

 " charge. 



" Dose. — The same as directed for Thuja occidentalis., inter- 

 nally. 



