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Treatment. — Various are the medicines that have 

 been tried to effect a cure in this terrible disease. Na- 

 sal injections have been used, but alone have produced 

 no effect, although in connexion with other things used 

 externally and internally have occasionally been effec- 

 tive. Mercury, as well as muriate and carbonate 

 of barytes, have as often killed the animal without 

 producing any relief from the disease, especially where 

 the latter medicines have been administered incau- 

 tiously. Some have tried camphor, and others sulphate 

 of copper, and these have been found efficacious when 

 the disease has not advanced beyond its first stage. 

 Mr. Coleman has used sheep's blood in some cases, 

 and different recipes of arsenic, antimony, zinc, &c., 

 but they have not produced the results anticipated. 

 Mr. Vines, in his treatise on this disease, urges as re- 

 medies to be employed, both stimulants and tonics, 

 which, administered carefully, greatly improves the 

 condition and strengthens the system. In the first 

 class he names — cantharides, canella bark, capsicum 

 berries, ginger root, cubebs, grains of paradise, pellitory 

 of Spain, fpyrethri radisej ; all sorts of pepper, as the 

 common black, Cayenne and Chili ; allspice, rpi'nientos 

 haccoej, sweet flag root, f calami aromat. radixj, and 

 winter's bark. Among the last — augustura bark, 

 buckbean, cascarilla bark, camomile flowers, gentian 

 and quassia. Of all these he has found cantharides 

 the most effective ; given internally, this disease is 

 greatly relieved by the effects of its action on the 

 general system, such as promoting the circulation of the 

 blood, producing a freer action in the several functions 

 of the body, and a considerable increase of appetite, 

 wf en the unhealthy discharge from the nostrils assumes 

 a more natural hue and tends to a restoration of 

 strength : and of all the medicines ever used for flie 



