402 THE STOCK owner's ADVISER. 



with me has confined this nunil)er to fonr or five drugs. Ad- 

 minister eight drachms of aloes, and follow with one-ounce 

 doses of powdered belladonna leaves in a bolus^ or one drachm 

 of the tincture may be used. Place the medicine well back on 

 the tongue, and it will be sucked in. Atropine may be given 

 hypoderniically in five to ten minim doses. Bromide of potash 

 should 1)0 dissolved in the drinking water, if the power of swal- 

 lowing is not lost. If this treatment does not seem to do well, 

 one drachm of powdered opium, made into a pill, should be 

 given, or morphine may be given hypodenuically in five-grain 

 doses. I have had good results from the use of calabar bean in 

 thirty-grain doses. The food should be of the best and most 

 nutritious quality, given in a thin gruel. The various liquid 

 foods should be given. If the disease runs an acute course, end- 

 ing in about three days, a cure cannot he made. When in the 

 acute form the spasms come on every ten or fifteen minutes from 

 the first of the attack, and gradually increase. If this occurs 

 twelve hours after treatment has been employed, the disease will 

 result in death in three or four days. If it runs a chronic course, • 

 and the animal lives over the tenth day, a recovery may be ex- 

 pected. The animal will not fully recover under six weeks or 

 two months. He should receive exercise during convalescence, 

 and should do only light and slow work for two months. 



CEREBRAL TUMORS. 



Tumors are often found in the choroid plexus. They grow 

 very slowly and scarcely ever affect the health of the animal. 

 If they become as large as a pig-eon's or hen's egg, they will give 

 rise to severe convulsive fits. Nothing can be done for this 

 trouble. Tubercular meningitis is seen in animals of a tuber- 

 cular diathesis. The symptoms are those of cerebral disturbance. 

 There is a thickening of the dura mater, atrophy and a hyper- 

 trophied condition of the brain, tumors in connection with and 

 Foftening of the brain. They all occur as a result of many other 



