346 THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OP 



" Purging must immediately follow. The epsom salts are 

 here, as in most inflammatory diseases, the best purgative. A 

 pound and a half, dissolved in water or gruel, and poured down 

 the throat as gently as possible, should be our first dose ; and 

 no aromatic should accompany it. If this does not operate in 

 the course of six hours, another pound should be given ; and 

 after that, half pound doses every six hours, until the effect is 

 produced." 



It is a wonder to me how any creature can survive such 

 barbarous treatment as this ; yet, even at the present day, just 

 such doctrines are taught in the schools, and practised on cat- 

 tle, to the disgrace of science, and shame on those men who 

 perpetrate the wickedness. 



Blood-letting and purging can have no good effect on a dis- 

 ease like this, so prostrating, and which runs its course to 

 mortification so rapidly. Such a wretched system of practice 

 has always failed, and ever will fail. 



That form of treatment which reason and experience sug- 

 gests, is the best ; for example : it would naturally occur to 

 the mind free from the prejudice of veterinary orthodoxy, 

 that a disease which runs into slouji^hinoj and mortification, in 

 a few short hours, must require life-sustaining agents ; hence 

 I recommend a very different mode of treatment from that 

 heretofore practised. 



I commence the treatment thus : — 



Spirits of Hartshorn, 4 drachms. 



Tar-water, 1 quart. 



Tincture of Bloodroot, 1 ounce . 



Mix the hartshorn and tar-water first ; then add the blood- 

 root. Drench (dose No. 1). The object in giving the harts- 

 horn is to decarbonize the blood, and impart healthy stimulus 

 to the nutrient system of bloodvessels and nerves ; and this 

 agent will do it. 



Should the animal show any lameness in the back or hind 

 quarters, apply tiie following: — 



Oil of Ce<lar, 2 ounces. 



Sulphuric Ether, 2 ounces. 



Tincture of (/'apsicum, 1 ounce. 



Cod Liver Oil, 6 ounces. 



