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Aeomatic Ammonia. — This medicine is valuable if adminis- 

 tered in cases where the disease is attended with debility. 

 Give it in doses of one ounce by measure in eight ounces of 

 cold water. Two or three doses of the remedy may be required ; 

 if so, give them at intervals of eight or twelve hours. 



Belladonna 1, Nux A^omica 1. — Belladonna is useful in 

 Cough. Give 2-drachm doses of the first dilution, in 3 or 

 4 ounces of water. The dose may be repeated three or four 

 times a day, according to the urgency of the cough.* 



!Nux Vomica. — Kux is an excellent remedy to restore the 

 appetite. It is also occasionally of value in preventing Catarrh. 

 Give it in 2-drachm doses, mixed in 3 or 4 ounces of water. 

 It may be given in alternation with Belladonna. 



Should the weather be severe at the time the disease is 

 manifested, let the patient rest. Keep him warm and comfort- 

 able, and diet him according to the rules laid down in Section 

 YI. Should the fever be present, give Aconite 1 occasionally. 

 Give it in 2-drachm doses, in 6 or 8 ounces of water. The 

 extremities of the patient should be occasionally fomented with 

 water, as hot as can be comfortably borne by the operator. 

 The fomentation should be continued for fifteen or twenty 

 minutes to each limb ; after which rub them perfectly dry, and 

 bandage them with woollen bandages. 



EPIZOOTIC CATARRH. 



This variety of Catarrh is a disease of a protean character. 

 Sometimes it is particularly marked by the obstinate manner in 

 which a Cough will adhere to the animal. At other times it 

 manifests a most uncontrollable tendency to terminate in Scar- 

 latina, or in Typhoid Pneumonia, or in Eoaring. It is supposed 



* See article " Cougli" in the present section. 



