86 THE EQUINE HOSPITAL POR^^IULARY. 



disease opium or morphia is our sheet-anchor. We may 

 give one drachm of powdered opium with two drachms of 

 chloroform and five minims of tincture of aconite. Or we 

 may inject forty minims of injectio morphin* hypodermica 

 every three or four hours. Sulphuric ether is also very 

 valuable, and belladonna mav be of service. Poultices of 

 mustard followed bv hot fomentations do much srood. 



Drangfii. 



Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce and a half 

 Chloroform, two fluid drachms. 

 "Water, sufficient to make eight fluid ounces in all. 

 This draught may be given every three hours for four or 

 five times. 



Draught. 



Flemin2:'s tincture of aconite, ten minims. 

 Chloroform, two fluid drachms. 

 Water, sufficient to make eight fluid ounces in all. 

 This draught may be given every four hours. 



Draught. 



Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce. 

 Spirit of nitrous ether, two fluid ounces. 

 Tincture of pimento, two fluid ounces. 

 Water, sufficient to make one pint in all. 



Hypodermic Injection. 



Hypodermic injection of morphine (B.P.), forty 

 minims. 



Enzootic Paraplegia, or Grass Staggers. 



This is a disease liable to affect horses feeding on r3'e- 

 grass at certain periods of its growth, and is manifested by 



