138 GENERAL THERAPEUTICS FOR VETERINARIANS 



horses and cattle, 25-50, 3vj to xij; dogs, 2-5, 5ss to i. Dose of 

 spiritus vini gallici double these quantities. Wine (vinum album, 

 vinum rubnmi) and beer are administered in quart (horses and 

 cattle) and tablespoonful (dogs) doses. 



2. *CafiEea. Coffee. A superior excitant for weakness and 

 depression of the brain, spinal cord, heart and the muscles of the 

 body. 



3. Arseni trioxidum. Arsenic. A roborant in chronic nutri- 

 tive disturbances and in conditions of inanition, especially in gen- 

 eral emaciation, anaemia, rachitis, osteomalacia and chronic eczema. 

 Dose for horses and cattle, 0.1 to 0.5, grs. iss to vij; sheep and 

 swine, 0.01-0.05, gr. 1/8 to %; dogs, 0.001-0.005, gr. 1/70 to 3/40 

 (2 to 10 drops of liquor potassii arsenitis). 



3. REDUCING REMEDIES. ANTIPLASTICS 



Synonyms: Dysplastica; reducing treatment, abstinence treatment, 

 hunger cure. 



Actions. — The antiplastics are used exclusively to combat and 

 overcome obesity or corpulence, i.e., an abnormal collection of fat 

 in the subcutaneous connective tissue, liver, heart, body cavities, 

 etc., resulting from too intensive feeding with insufficient exercise or 

 work. The antiplastics are usually divided into two groups: the 

 dietetic and medicinal. 



Dietetic Reducing Methods. — These consist of methodical, 

 rational feeding and regulation of the diet, i.e., the supplying of 

 suitable foods and the partial or complete withdrawal of certain 

 nutritive substances and foods. The simplest reducing method, 

 which usually suffices for animals, is the hunger or abstinence cure. 

 This method is applied by entirely withholding food from the 

 over-fat animal for a time or by reducing the amount of food given. 

 Work and exercise at the same time will be of assistance in obtain- 

 ing the desired results. This method, however, is not applicable 

 to all cases. In advanced obesity, in which the body is deficient in 

 albumin, the abstinence cure will increase the weakness. In other 

 cases, the method cannot always be carried out (ill-behaving 



