96 RmDERPEST. 



The Pro2)1iylactic Treatment^ recommended with a view of 

 preventing the development of the disease, or of modifying 

 the intensity of its symptoms, &c., consists of: 



1. /Sulphite of soda, one ounce in a bucketful! of water, and given 

 morning and evening. 



2. McDougalVa solution, a wine glass in a bucketful! of water, 

 twice a day. 



3. The sulphite and solution combined, to wit, a lialf ounce of tlie 

 first, and two tablespoonfuls of the second, given as above. 



Gamgee, whiie challenging for his practice as many recov- 

 eries as are gained by his opponents, affirms that — 



. . " No known remedy restores an animal once severely attacked, and 

 the administration of medicine is, as a rule, not required to save the 

 small percentage which may recover." 



Winding up his hopelessness as follows : 



" But if any one wishes to test the effects of medicine in this disease, 

 let him treat at least one hundred animals on any one system, and 

 leave another one hundred to nature, having a proper regard for their 

 comfort and judicious hygienic management." 



He proceeds to account partially for the laurels won by the 

 Homoeopaths in South Holland, by noting as one of the 

 strange variances of outbreak in Great Britain, that — 



" Dutch cattle have suffered less than our own, both in Holland 

 and Great Britain." 



In the absence of definite information, we are left to con- 

 jecture whether his methods were as numerous as those of the 

 empirics to whose treatment he professes to have given close 

 observation, or as those of the remedies employed and of which 

 he gives an extended notice, though prefaced by the slur — 

 " Some animals recover despite the mode of treatment." 

 Alluding to the recent method of subcutaneous injection — 

 " As of tincture of aconite, belladonna, and other alkaloids wliich 

 do not irritate and inflame the tissues" — 



he next describes the system of injection into veins, in the 

 use of— 



"A pint or quart of water at 100° Fahr., injected after the like 

 amount of blood has been taken from tlic jugular vein ....,to be 



