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frequently indicated, in addition to the remedies used for the disease 

 itself. 



Founder occurring as a complication of fever is difficult to treat. It 

 is, unfortunately, frequently not recognized until inflammatory changes 

 have gone on for some days. If recognized at once, local bleeding and 

 the use of hot or cold water, as the condition of the animal will permit, 

 are most useful, but in the majority of cases the stupefied animal is un. 

 able to be moved satisfactorily or to have one foot lifted for local treat- 

 ment, and the only treatment consists in local bleeding above the cor- 

 onary bands and the ai^plication of poultices. 



For congestion of the brain large doses of aconite and small repeated 

 doses of mercury form the ordinary mode of treatment. During con- 

 valescence small doses of alkalines may be kept up for some little time, 

 but the greatest care must be used, while furnishing the animal vrith 

 plenty of nutritious, easily digested food, not to overload the intestinal 

 tract, causing constipation and consecutive diarrhea. Special care must 

 be taken for some weeks not to esposo the animal to cold. 



SEQUELS OF INFLUENZA. 



Anasarca. — A previous attack of influenza is the most common pre- 

 disposing cause of a serious disease of the nervous system ; paralysis 

 of the vaso-motor nerves which govern the circulation in the smaller 

 blood vessels and capillaries. This trouble, which is also known as 

 purpura hemorrhagia and as scarlatina, appears most frequently a few 

 weeks after convalesceuco is established. It occurs more frequently in 

 those animals which have made a rapid convalescence and are appar- 

 ently perfectly well, and in those which have evidently periectly 

 regained their health, than it does in those which have made a slower 

 recovery. The exciting cause of this trouble is usuallj* exposure to 

 cold ; and again, exposure to cold draughts of air on the heated but not 

 necessarily sweating animal is more apt to cause the trouble than ex- 

 posure to rain or wet. This latter will more frequently cause complica- 

 tion of the internal organs, such as pneumonia, pleurisy, etc. 



Anasarca commences by symptoms which are excessively variable. 

 The local lesions may be couliued to a small portion of the animal's body 

 and the constitutional phenomena be nul. The appearance and gravity 

 of the local lesions may be so unlike, from difference of location, that 

 they seem to belong to a separate disease, and complications may com- 

 pletely mask the original trouble. 



In the simplest form the first symptom noticed is a swelling, or sev- 

 eral swellings occurring on the surface of the body, on the forearm, the 

 leg, the under surface of the belly, or on the side of the head. The tu- 

 mefaction is at first the size of a hen's egg ; not hot, little sensitive, and 

 distinctly circumscribed by a marked line from the surrounding healthy 

 tissue. These tumors gradually extend until they coalesce, and in a 

 few hours we have swelling up of the legs, legs and belly, or the head, 



