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to be expunged from the Pharmacopoeia.* Sometimes it may do good, but oftener evil, because 

 brain symptoms are apt to follow its use, and also great nervous prostration. 



The Complications of Distemper. See under their proper headings. Some authorities make 

 different kinds of distemper, such as head or brain distemper, nervous distemper, belly distemper, 

 &c. &c. This classification, however, is calculated to make the general reader lose sight of the 

 real symptoms and causes of the malady. 



There is only one form of distemper, and the lesions of other organs are its complications. 



Supposing no very severe complication to have arisen, you may begin, as soon as the fever 

 abates and there is some show of depression, to give tonics. The following is an excellent one : 



Jt, Quinae gr. ad gr. iij. 



Pulv. rhei gr. ij. ad gr. x. 



Ext. tarax. ... gr. iij. ad gr. xx. 



Ft. bolus. M. 



Give three times a day. 



If there be much heat on the top of the head and brow, we usually substitute this 



9> Bebeerin. sulph gr. j. ad gr. v. 



Rosae conf. ... ... q. s. 



Ft. bolus. 



During convalescence good food, cod-liver oil, moderate exercise, fresh air, and protection 

 from cold. These, with an occasional mild dose of castor-oil or rhubarb, are to be our sheet- 

 anchors. 



* Hydrate of chloral was at first in great vogue with the profession. It is now used almost solely for cases of 

 muscular pain. 



