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drachm of aloes, or half a drachm of calomel, or,, 

 which I like far better, two ounces of linseed oil. 

 Under such circumstances you can make no pro- 

 gress until the bowels are corrected. Sometimes 

 the pulse will rise daily in the face of camphor 

 and belladonna, but upon discontinuing them and 

 giving tonic stimulants, the pulse at once com- 

 menced to excel, and my patient recovered, but 

 after all most of them die. I now approach in- 

 fluenza simple. This is the most important part 

 to my readers of this subject. If the horse is ob- 

 served just as it is in the act of contracting the 

 epizootic, and when it is in its incipient stage, if 

 proper care is at once supplied, it will be found 

 that it is only an ephemeral disturbance. In such 

 a case administer a pint of warm ale, one table- 

 spoonful of ground ginger (Barbadoes is best), 

 and the same quantity of powdered aniseed. The 

 effect produced is so satisfactory, in nearly every 

 case, that it would appear to be the very stimulant 

 required at the time. Any diffusible stimulant 

 that acts on excitement, such as brisk exercise 

 or considerable friction to the skin, is of great 

 benefit. Get the skin thoroughly warm, supply 

 it with cool fresh air, and you have a reaction 

 established immediately. The progress of affec- 

 tion is arrested. The system seems to assume 

 altered electrical conditions, but it is not to be 

 supposed that this neutralizes the invisible in- 

 fluence which is exerting itself from without, but 

 it excites and maintains an artificial spirit of 

 vitality, which enables the system to withstand 

 the shock it has sustained in the loss of electricity^ 



