•M THE FARM DOCTOR. 



and a perfect recovery is made. In the unfavourable, the pulse 

 becomes small, weak, and rapid (eighty to ninety per minute), 

 the inouth hotter, more clammy, and covered by yellowish, 

 brownish, Or greenish blotches, the abdominal walls more tendet, 

 -the bowels more irritable, sometimes with a foetid diarrhoea, and 

 "the strength is rapidly exhausted. The head is constantly 

 pendent, the eye sunken, the expression of the countenance 

 stupid and haggard, and the stupor or insensibility may become 

 so great that pinching or even pricking of the skin may pass 

 unnoticed by the animal. Death usually takes place from the 

 tenth to the twentieth day. 



Treatment. — English veterinarians rely much on calomel, and 

 ■with a firm full pulse, not too rapid, a general warmth of surface 

 and extremities, a bright eye, cheerful countenance, whitish 

 foetid dung, and much yellowness of the eye, nose, or mouth, a 

 few doses of calomel (lo grs.) and opium (30 grs.), repeated 

 twice daily, may be useful in stimulating the liver and throwing 

 off injurious agents from the blood. But it is to be avoided 

 when there is a weak, rapid pulse and great prostration arid 

 debility, and in no case should it be given over two or three 

 days, or until the system is saturated with the drug. Severe 

 costiveness may be obviated by 2 or 3 drs. of aloes and a 

 drachm of calomel, or by a daily dose of 2 or 3 ozs. of Glauber 

 salts until relaxation occurs. Soft feeding and copious injec- 

 tions of warm water must be continued to maintain the bowels 

 -in a healthy state. A drachm each of chlorate or nitrate of 

 potassa and muriate of ammonia may be given three or four 

 times daily with the water drunk, or in case of great dullness 

 'and debility, an ounce of oil of turpentine, sulphuric ether, 

 ' sweet spirits of nitre, or carbonate of ammonia may be given 

 as well. Great tenderness of the belly may be met by persisterit 

 hot fomentations and mustard poultices, and if necessary by 

 half-drachm doses of opium. Tympany is treated by hand 

 rubbmg and by aromatic ammonia or oil of peppermint. During 



