290 DYSENTEEY. 



mucous membrane red with abrasions or ulcerations, vary* 

 ing in extent, and sometimes perforating the intestine. In 

 some cases abscesses exist in the submucous tissue. Ecchy- 

 moses, and even spots where sloughing is going on, are ap- 

 parent in the large intestine. 



Treatment. In some acute cases of dysentery, advantage 

 is said to have been derived from blood-letting. Greater re- 

 liance is to be placed in the use of mild aperients and emol- 

 lient clysters. Calomel and opium, of each a scruple, given 

 thrice daily for one or two days, has been attended with 

 great benefit. The severe inflammatory symptoms having 

 subsided, styptic and stimulating remedies, which act topically 

 on the mucous membrane of the intestine, can be pre- 

 scribed. Acetate of zinc, acetate of lead, and turpentine, all 

 given in small doses rather frequently, and in large quanti- 

 ties of thin gruel and decoction of linseed, prove of service. 

 Some veterinarians have obtained benefit from employing 

 drachm doses of sulphate of copper. Alkalies and opium 

 have been combined as follows for cases of dysentery in the 

 cow: 



Solution of potash . . . . 1 oz. 



Ipecacuanha wine . . . . 1 oz. 



Powdered opium . . . . 1 dr. 



Tincture of cantharides . . . J oz. 

 Mix and give in a quart of warm gruel 



Hertwig advise the administration of nitrate of silver in 

 doses of eight or ten grains for the horse or ox, which may 

 be given in about ten ounces of cold boiled water. 



Chloride of lime, a drachm to the quart of water, proves 

 beneficial ; or the following prescription : 



Chlorinated lime . . . . 2 dr. 



Tincture of arnica . . . . 2 dr. 



Nitric ether . 1 oz. 



