RHEUMATISM. 145 



Oil of turpentine 2 ounces 



Liquid carbonate of ammonia (spirit of hartshorn) . . 2 ounces 



Tincture of opium (laudanum) 2 drachms 



Olive oil 2 ounces : 



Or, 



Cajeput oil .- one part 



Soap liniment (opodeldoc) two parts. Mix 



The warm bath should be repeated at intervals of one or two 

 days, according to the quickness or tardiness of the amendment ; 

 moderate feeding only should be allowed. Sometimes food is al- 

 together refused ; more frequently the animal is as willing to eat 

 as at other times ; and it is not uncommon, in some of these cases, 

 from a morbid sympathy of the stomach and bowels, for him to 

 be more than usually voracious. When the paralysis occasioned 

 by rheumatism continues to deprive the limbs of their mobihty, I 

 have experienced some good effect from electricity, in others from 

 mercurial frictions, and in some cases from blisters along the 

 spine : where the hinder limbs only have been paralytic, a very 

 large pitch plaister, applied over the whole loins, reaching to the 

 tail, as well as covering the upper parts of the thighs, and worn 

 for two months, or even longer, has been of great service. I have 

 experienced benefit also from the cold bath ; but the warm bath, 

 though a most admirable remedy during the rheumatic attack, I 

 have never found to give any relief to the future paralysis. Fi- 

 nally, when all these have altogether failed, I would advise a trial 

 of the tonic plan recommended for Chorea ; and as a last resource 

 acupuncturation might be tried, which see among the Ope7'ations* 



