142 Diseases of the Horse. 



Bleeding, blistering and mustard plasters are not called 

 for, and much more frequently do harm than good. 



Mr. Finlay Dun uses chloral with opium. He says he 

 has had the best results, and often saved life in those cases 

 of deadly enteritis which occur in heavy draught horses, by 

 giving a hypodermic injection of chloral hydrate, forty grains, 

 immediately followed by one of morphia, three grains, and 

 repeating both injections in about an hour. The combination 

 may be made for the mouth, thus : — 



No. - 126. Chloral livdrate, 1 oz. 



Morphia, 10 grains. 



Give in syrup and water, and repeat every two hours for three or four 

 times, or until symptoms abate. 



A favorite prescription of the eminent English surgeon, 

 Mr. Barlow, for enteritis, whether in horses or cattle, was : — 



Ko. 127. Calomel, 30 grains. 



Laudanum, 1 oz. 



;Mix in a pint of gruel. 



This he repeated every hour until three or four doses were 

 taken, or else relief occurred. 



A method of treatment we can recommend is, when the 

 case is seen early, to begin with small repeated doses of 

 aconite : — 



No. 128. Tincture of aconite, 20 drops. 



Laudanum, ^ oz. 



Give in lime water every hour or two^ to the extent of three or four 

 doses. 



Large fomentations to the bowels are of great use. A 

 blanket can be folded inside a rubber cloth which is fastened 

 over the back. The blanket then can be kept thoroughly 

 soaked with quite warm water with little trouble. If the 

 symptoms of pain and exhaustion are relieved, the attendant 

 need not trouble himself about the constipation. The utmost 

 that should "be done, will be after two or three days to use 

 injections of warm water. 



