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like quantities. Administer them in turns about three or four 

 times a day. 



Camphoe. — Aeomatio Ammonia.— In numerous cases of 

 this disease the heart is involved. This may be known by the 

 irritable state of the pulse, and the peculiar feverish condition 

 of the animal. Camphor is invaluable in such cases. If the 

 patient be of the large, heavy, draught breed, give the remedy 

 in drachm doses, and repeat it twice or three times a day. 

 Give it in powder, mixed with flour, as directed at page 146, 



For small-sized, light-bred horses, half a drachm will suffice ; 

 or, at the most, 2 drachms may be divided into three doses. 



The Aromatic Ammonia may be regarded as one of the 

 indispensable remedies. Sometimes it is necessary to administer 

 it at the very onset of the disease. If the patient be aged, and 

 the life powers feeble — if a soft cough be present, attended 

 with soreness of the chest, its use is especially called for. Grive 

 it in ounce doses, mixed with 6 or 8 ounces of water. It may 

 either be given alone, or in alternation -with Camphor. The 

 necessity for repeating the drug will depend upon the vital 

 state of the patient ; its action is that of a diffusible stimulant, 

 and as such I strongly recommend it — not only in Epizootic 

 Catarrh, but in most other diseases of a low typhoid nature. 



Aeseitictjm.— ^Tii^CT. Feeei Mueias. — These remedies are 

 valuable when the patient is convalescent — especially when 

 debility is present, and the appetite is indifferent, and accom- 

 panied with swelling of the extremities. Give the Arsenicum 

 and the Ferri Murias in alternation, twice or three times a day. 

 Administer the former in 2-drachm doses of the 3rd dilution ; 

 the latter, also, in 2-drachm doses, mixed with 6 or 8 ounces 

 of water. It may be necessary to continue these remedies four 

 or five days in succession. 



