62 THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF 



Bupposod to be involved, — the disease, in many cases, miglit be 

 arrested, but so long as phyiscians consider it as an inflamma- 

 tory affection, and treat it as such, by administering agents 

 which reduce the vitality of the system, there is no hope 

 for the patient ; the disease will run into the typhoid stage. 

 The treatment I recommend as the most rational, is as follows : 

 Let the infected animal be removed from its associates, to a 

 comfortable, clean location. The body and limbs, if they are 

 chilly, should be well rubbed with wisps of straw, and after- 

 wards clothed if necessary. The medicine to be administered 

 consists of, — 



Balsam Copaiba, 4 ounces. 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre, 2 ounces. 



Mucilage of Gum Arabic, 12 ounces. 



Tincture of Matico, 3 ounces. Mix. 



Dose. — Three ounces, morning and evening. 



A superabundant discharge of urine will be the signal to 

 stop the medicine. The drink should consist of warm mucilage 

 of slippery elm ; and the food, if the animal is disposed to eat, 

 should consist of ground oats, and green vegetables, if they can 

 be obtained. 



When the foecal discharges become liquid and profuse, 

 pulverized charcoal, at the rat^ of six ounces per day, may be 

 given, at the same time I should offer the patient a liberal 

 supply of sliced carrots ; I use this vegetable in preference to 

 all others because it contains an agent, capable of gelatinizing 

 the contents of the abdominal viscera; viz., pectec acid. 



Notwithstanding the above treatment, should the alvine dis- 

 charges continue liquid and profuse, I should give a few doses of 

 infusion of bayberry bark, and feed on good hay and ground 

 oatmeal. If the patient is thirsty, I should prescribe hay-tea 

 acidulated with lemon-juice, or a few bruised cranberries. If, 

 after the above treatment, a lung difficulty, or typhoid symp- 

 toms set in, there is very little hope for the animal ; the 

 principles of veterinary theory and practice exercised with 

 the most consummate skill, may fail in arresting the malady ; 

 still, however the animal should not be sacrificed until some 

 means such as I have recomended have been tried. 



