110 THE EQUINE HOSPITAL FORMULARY. 



Spirit of nitrous ether, half a fluid ounce. 

 Alcohol (brandy or whisky), four fluid ounces. 

 Water, four fluid ounces. 

 This draught may be given every three or four hours. 



Draught (see ' Antiseptic Draughts '). 



Draught 



Ginger, half an ounce. 



Gentian, two drachms. 



Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 



Water to ten ounces. 



Powder. 



Salicylate of sodium, one drachm. 

 In the case of two animals, after this salt had been 

 administered, the temperature fell from 105° and lOl'S" 

 to 102° and 101° respectively. Indeed, salicylate of sodium 

 is of very great value in influenza, and we may add that it 

 is also very useful as an anti-ferment in cases of bovine 

 tympanites. Dr. D. Astley Gresswell, late house physician 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, informs us that seventy cases 

 of enteric fever in that hospital, under the care of Dr. 

 Southey, from April, 1882, to April, 1883, were all treated 

 with salicylate of sodium, and that only one of these patients 

 died, and he within forty-eight hours of admission, as a 

 result of peritonitis, from which the patient was suff'ering 

 at the time of his entrance. 



Influenza (in Later Stages). 



Any of the draughts and balls mentioned under ' Anaemia ' 

 and ' Debility ' will prove valuable. The ordinary cough 

 or fever or stimulating tonic balls may be given. 



