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lilvevvise administered ; and, in default of that acting- also, 

 give the following" ball, increasing- or diminishing its size and 

 strength according to circumstances: — 



Submuriate of mercury (calomel) 4 grains 



Powdered opium quarter of a grain 



Oil of peppermint 1 drop 



Aloes 1 dram. 



Make into a ball with lard or butter, which give ; and, if 

 necessary, repeat every four hours till the bowels are per- 

 fectly open ; and keep them gently so by mild aperients for 

 several days after, or until amendment takes place. The 

 affected parts should also be embrocated two or three times 

 a-day with either of the following : — 



Oil of turpentine 2 ounces 



Liquid carbonate of ammonia (spirit ^ g ounces 



of hartshorn) S 



Tincture of opium (laudanum) 2 drams 



Olive oil 2 ounces: 



Or, 



Cajeput oil one part 



Soap liniment (opodeldoc) two parts. — Mix. 



The warm bath should be repeated at intervals of one or 

 two days, according to the quickness or slowness of the amend- 

 ment; moderate feeding only should be allowed. Sometimes 

 food is altogether refused ; more frequently the animal is as 

 willing to eat as at other times ; and it is not uncommon, in 

 some of these cases, from a morbid sympathy of the stomach 

 and bowels, for him to be more than usually voracious. 



When the paralysis, occasioned by rheumatism, continues 

 to deprive the limbs of their mobility, 1 have experienced 

 some good effect from electricity, in others from mercurial 

 frictions, and in some cases from blisters along the spine. 

 When the hinder limbs only are paralytic, a very large pitch 

 plaster, applied over the whole loins, reaching to the tail, 

 and covering the upper parts of the thighs, should continue 

 to be worn for two months, or even longer. In a few cases 

 I have experienced benefit from the cold bath ; but the warm 

 bath, though the most admirable remedy during the rheuma- 



