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purgatives, or counter-irritants, and change of habits. A pound 

 of sulphate of soda may be given at once to the larger animals, 

 or an ounce to a shepherd's dog, and an equivalent amount by 

 injection. Podophyllin, aloes, etc., may be used instead. 

 Friction, with loose bandaging of the hmbs, with or without 

 Excitation with mustard or ammonia and cupping, or in small 

 animals leeching over the region of the liver or mustard 

 poultices are demanded. After the bowels have been freely 

 opened smaller doses of Glauber salts or cream of tartar may 

 be given daily to keep up a tree action of the bowels, and 

 throughout the diet must be soft (mashes, roots, green food), 

 and restricted in quantity. Taraxacum with bitter tonics 

 (Peruvian bark, gentian, columba, gelsemium, etc.), will be 

 useful during convalescence, and when the herbivorous patient 

 is well enough to be pastured in a field well stocked with 

 dandelion this may be resorted to. In carnivora and swine 

 ipecacuanha and guaiacum are usetui in favouring free elimina- 

 tion by the bowels and skm. 



Fo7vls attacked usually die, but the morbid state in which the 

 disease takes its origin may be counteracted in the remaining 

 fowls by a free range, by cabbage, cooked potatoes, turnips, and 

 other vegetable food in place of grain, and a small quantity of 

 salt and Glauber salts in the food or water. Excess of common 

 salt is poisonous. 



CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 



This is seen especially in horses and dogs, the liver often 

 attaining an enormous size or undergoing fibrous degeneration 

 (cirrhosis). It is attended by the same symptoms as the acute 

 form, but. these are less urgent, and dropsy of the belly and 

 legs is a common result. 



It, is to be treated in the same manner as the acute form, but 

 less energetically, mild Ifvxatives with bitters daily, and, above 



