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ness and general debility, the nostrils and linings of the 

 mouth become dry, and blood occasionally exudes from 

 the former ; coughing, heaviness, languor, constipation, 

 loss of appetite, and consequent suspension of rumi- 

 nation, while the urine gets thicker and darker. Y.-S. 

 Steel, in describing the symptoms, mentions among 

 others that the cough is only occasional ; loss of appe- 

 tite sometimes complete, at others partial ; likewise as 

 regards the bowels, in some cases there is constipation, 

 in others the reverse ; the urine is not only dark but 

 has an increased ammoniacal colour ; and he goes on 

 to say that c there will be no perceptible respiratory 

 difficulty or disturbance, neither, so far as my obser- 

 vation goes, is much information to be derived from 

 auscultation (listening to the respiratory sounds by the 

 application of the ear to the chest), still less by percus- 

 sion (or tapping the parietes of the chest). These three 

 latter statements are most irregular facts, difficult to 

 theorise upon, but probably the pneumogastric nerve 

 again offers a solution of the mystery. It is said that 

 this nerve originates at a greater distance from the 

 brain than in shorter-necked animals, consequently, 

 being less intimately connected with the nervous centre, 

 the sympathy of the lungs with general nervous dis- 

 turbance may be diminished.' At the advent of this 

 disease he advocates rest and protection from cold 

 as being specially necessary, and the following treat- 

 ment as appropriate : 



Tolas 



Henbane (hyoscamus) . ... . .6 



Dhatura (datura or thorn-apple) . . . .1 



Turmeric . . . . ; . . . .24 



Mustard seed . . . .... . . 24 



Make into eighteen balls, and give one two or three times daily. 



