112 RINDERPEST. 



altliouo^h to different stages. The deep inflammatory blush 

 it produces on the mucous surface of tlie oesophagus, stomach 

 and bowels, as ifar as the coecum, is accompanied with dark 

 colored patches (these organs containing a viscid blackish 

 green fluid), attended at the same time with an enormous dis- 

 tention of the cerebral vessels, which in the development of 

 the drug symptoms have caused restlessness, dimness of 

 sight, stupor, and partial insensibility, accompanied with 

 trembling, cold extremities, bathed (with the forehead in men) 

 in cold sweat, and blueness of lips and skin as if asphyxiated. 

 The gall bladder is not distended, Tvhile the kidneys are some- 

 what engorged. 

 Dr. A. T. Thomson says : 



" It acts first on t'le stomach, then on the nervous system, produc- 

 ing vomiting, hypercatharsis, vertigo, cold sweats, delirium and con- 

 vulsions, which terminate in death It resembles Strychnia in 



its effects on the posterior extremities when administered to quad- 

 rupeds." * 



In cases such as those described by Egan and Pope and by 

 Prof. Simonds as occurring in Galicia (see pp. 23-27), this 

 remedy in the tincture, and in doses of five to ten droi)S, 

 might be prescribed until the nervous twitchings and exces- 

 sive diarrhoea were arrested. 



Acidiim Muriaticum^ which in its dilute form was largely 

 employed by the Dutch veterinarians, corresponds somewhat 

 in the corrosive smarting, slight inflammation and agglutina- 

 tion of the eyes and eyelids, in coryza with an acrid discharge, 

 and in the painful varices it produces, with some of the promi- 

 nent symptoms of the Ptst. Its value is not to be denied in 

 acute disease (especially of a septic character), with rai)id 

 sinking of the vital force, and when the tongue is dark red, 

 dry or covered with a viscid phlegm, lips dry, blackish and 

 cracked, and the other symptoms last noticed occur. Its 

 power also of assisting the gastric juice (perhaps of restoring 

 it), must be conceded. But in the absence of any sure exi)eri- 

 ments it may be conjectural, whether its use in the early 

 stages of the Pest would bring back to the stomachs their 



• Materia Med. and Therapeut., Vol. 1, p. 670. 



