24 VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA. 



baths, wet pack, cold drinks. (N.B. : These last three 

 promote heat loss.) 



Antiphlogistics include all measures adopted to 

 reduce inflammation, whether medicine internally or 

 local applications — mercury, opium, aconite, digi- 

 talis, ergot, venesection, purgation, counter-irritation, 

 cold, ice, rest, etc. 



Antiperiodics, agents which check or prevent the 

 return of various periodically recurring diseases — 

 quinine, arsenic, salicin, eucalyptol. 



Agents Acting on Excretion. 



Diuretics increase the activity of the kidneys, 

 stimulating them to excrete the urine more rapidly — 

 spiritus setheris nitrosi, digitalis, etc. 



Renal Depressants decrease the activitj- of the 

 renal cells, and diminish or suspend the excretion of 

 urine — morphine, quinine, ergot. 



Urinary Alkalizers, when taken internally, 

 cause the urine to have an alkaline reaction — alka- 

 lies, salts of potassium and lithium. 



Urinary Acidifiers render the urine of an acid 

 reaction — benzoic and salicylic acids. 



Vesical Tonics stimulate the contractile power of 

 the bladder by increasing the tone of the muscular 

 fibre composing the walls of that organ — strychnine, 

 cantharis, belladonna. 



Vesical Sedatives relieve irritability of the blad- 

 der and decrease the desire to micturate — opium, 

 cannabis, belladonna. 



