90 INFLUENZA. 



RECIPE (No. 27). 



Take — Sulphuric ether, one ounce ; 



Tincture of opium, one ounce ; 

 Water, one pint. 



Soft food, gruel, and a cool, loose box will be required. 

 The legs should be well hand-rubbed to restore the 

 circulation; and the swellings may be e rbrocated, in 

 the hope of promoting absorption, although there is no 

 absolute necessity to attend to these — they usually 

 disappear with the disease. If there is soreness of 

 the throat, as there generally is, the part may be sti- 

 mulated with a little embrocation, yet even here it is 

 better to yield to the obvious desire of nature, and to 

 permit sickness to escape from the annoyance it desires 

 to avoid. Nothing whatever must be done to the eyes, 

 however bad they may appear to be. There is one 

 plan which will generally succeed, and which should be 

 regarded as an indispensable portion of the treatment 

 of distemper, not to give one drop of water, but to 

 hang up in a box a pail containing very thin gruel, 

 from which the horse may quench his thirst as often 

 as he pleases. Some degree of nutriment will be thus 

 got into him, which could have been effected by no 

 other means. 



When the inflammatory appearances are abated, and 

 much weakness remains, we may have recourse to 

 mild tonics, such as the following : — 



RECIPE (No. 28). 

 Mild Tonic Ball for Influenza. 

 Takh — Gentian, half an ounce ; 



Powdered ginger, two drachms ; 

 Cascarilla bark, half an ounce : 

 To be made into a drink with a quart of ale or stout. 



