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This will act beneficially in lowering the fever and changing the condition 

 of the blood which in influenza always becomes dark-colored as the dis- 

 ease proceeds. 



When, however, the fever is accompanied with much prostration, it 

 will be advisable to give sweet spirits of nitre in doses of from one to two 

 ounces, at intervals of about four hours. If the prostration increases, 

 a draught of 



Carbonate of ammonia 3 ij. 



Camphor, 



Ginger aa3i. 



In those forms where the abdominal complications are prominent 

 features, the horse inclined to be restless and occasionally lying down 

 and rising again, as if suffering from colic, with a confined condition of 

 the bowels, it will be needful to give .our attention to relieve this restless- 

 ness and pain; enemata of tepid water or tepid water and oil, with the 

 application to the abdomen of woollen cloths wrung from pretty warm 

 water, are often sufficient to attain the end desired. 



Where the pain is more persistent, or where the confined state of the 

 bowels is accompanied with a distinct yellow condition of the visible 

 mucous membranes, it will most jorobably be needful to exhibit a mode- 

 rate dose of linseed oil, to which has been added one or two ounces of 

 tincture of opium, or from ten to fifteen drops of Fleming's tincture of 

 aconite, while the hot-water applications to the abdomen may be sup- 

 plemented with smart friction with soap or ammonia liniment ; while 

 where pain is the prominent feature, and not accompanied by marked 

 constipation, it is readily enough relieved by subcutaneous injection of: 



Magendie's solution of morphia tii^xx. to "nixl. 



When both pain and constipation have continued more or less trouble- 

 some for some days, with a foul condition of the mouth and tongue, the 

 animal all the time continuing to partake occasionally of a little mash, 

 an endeavor ought to be made to induce it to take along with the mash 

 a certain quantity of linseed oil, or a rather full allowance of sulphate 

 of soda. In such cases, the exhibition twice daily in bolus of half a 

 drachm of opium and twenty grains of calomel, together with the oil, 

 will prove efficacious in removing or relieving the pain and confined con- 

 dition of the bowels. 



