326 THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF 



Symptoms. — The principal symptoms are irregular, nervoug 

 action, trembling, tremors, spasms, and, lastly, convulsions. 

 The other symptoms are such as are noticed in affections of a 

 low typhoid type ; the pulse is quickened, yet small ; the 

 tongue slightly swollen, and coated with a brown fur; the 

 urine is high-colored, and the bowels are constipated ; the mem- 

 branes of the eyes are reddened, and the breath has a bad 

 odor. 



Treatment. — If the bowels are constipated, I should give an 

 aperient, composed of glauber salts, ten ounces ; powdered 

 ginger and goldenseal, of each, one drachm ; tepid water, one 

 quart. Then let the whole length of the spine be well rubbed 

 with two or three ounces of oil of cedar. Should the breath 

 or excrements have a very bad odor, the following must be 

 given : — 



Pyroligneous acid, 2 ounces. 



Glycerine, 4 ounces. 



Water, 1 quart. Mix. 



Dose. — A wine-glassful three or four times daily, until an 

 improvement takes place. 



To relieve the nervous irritation and trembling, I give two 

 drachms of tincture of Indian hemp, in a little water, twice 

 daily. 



The patient is to be kept on oatmeal gruel, the quantity to 

 be regulated according to actual necessity. A curable case 

 will be very likely to improve under the above treatment ; if it 

 fail, the owner will have the satisfaction of knowing that the 

 patient was not destroyed by meddlesome medication, nor was 

 its death occasioned by poisonous drugs, but the case was 

 incurable. 



WATERING CATTLE AND FARM HORSES. 



Although iew persons think it worth while to pay much 

 attention to this department of husbandry, yet a little reHection 

 will convince any reasonable person of the value and impor- 

 tance of furnishing cattle with a constant supply of pure warer. 

 Pure, cool water, is said to be a godsend to a thirsty throat ; 



