ENTERITIS. 341 



The best remedies against Enteritis in general, are — 

 Aconite 1, Arsenicum 2, Bryonia 1, Elms Toxicodendron 1, 

 and Hot "Water. After detailing the common principles with 

 reference to the application of these medicines in Enteritis, I 

 shall proceed to discuss the questions of bleeding, and the use 

 of sedatives in this disease. 



Aconite 1 — Hot "Water. — Aconite is a remedy upon 

 which T place great reliance in diseases of the character at 

 present under consideration. Use it of the 1st dilution in 

 drachm doses, mixed vvdth 4 or 5 ounces of water, and repeat it 

 every fifteen minutes. Aconite given as directed, and hot water 

 applied almost ad libitum to the body of the patient externally, 

 and occasionally in doses of a pint internally, will constitute 

 the principal treatment for at least two or three hours at the 

 commencement. 



Enteritis, as I have previously stated, in spite of treatment 

 of every known kind, will in the generality of cases have a dash 

 as it were at the patient. The want of a knowledge of this fact 

 has led to the death of hundreds of horses. Instead of the 

 veterinary surgeon carefully watching his patient, and by the 

 aid of simple agents striving to support the animal until the 

 vital energies are enabled to rally from the savage onslaught 

 made upon them, he has fallen into the fatal error of bleeding 

 to excess, at the commencement of the disease, and then 

 storing the animal, to use a couplet from Hudibras, 



" With deletery med'cines, 



Which whosoever took is dead since, — " 

 that I can scarcely write in terms of sufficient force to warn 

 men from committing similar errors in future. The skilful 

 general never risks his all upon a single venture ; he economises 

 his power until the right moment, and then he attacks the 

 enemy with an unsparing hand, and utterly annihilates him. 



