466 Veterinary Medicine. 



The muscular weakness and paralysis that remain after the 

 acute symptoms have subsided must be met by stimulating lini- 

 ments and even blisters to the loins or affected muscles, by the 

 internal use of strychnia (2 grs. twice daily) until the jerking of 

 the muscles indicates that its physiological action has been 

 secured, and by an electric current daily for ten minutes at a 

 time through the affected nerves and muscles. Animals that 

 have been helpless for weeks have, in our hands, recovered under 

 such treatment, and even cases of several month's standing, with 

 the most extensive atrophy of the triceps, and in which the ani- 

 mal could barely stand, have made a satisfactory recovery. 



Any remaining nephritis must be treated according to its 

 indications. 



During recovery and in the convalescent animal the diet should 

 be laxative and non-stimulating. Bran mashes, turnips, beets, 

 carrots, green fodder, ensilage and scalded hay may be allowed. 

 Oats, corn, beans, peas, vetches, etc. , must be carefully avoided. 

 If the food fails to maintain the bowels in a gently relaxed con- 

 dition one, two or more ounces of sulphate of soda may be added 

 daily. 



In the mild cases a good dose of purgative medicine succeeded 

 by a course of diuretics will serve a good purpose. 

 ' In all cases alike work must be resumed very gradually. At 

 first the animal may be walked a few hundred yards, and the 

 pace or load and duration of exercise may be increased day by day 

 until full work can be safely endured. In an animal that has 

 once suffered the same gradual inuring to labor should be 

 followed, after any short period of rest on a fairly good ration. 



The microbian theory of causation led to the treatment by 

 large doses of potassium iodide. W. A. McClanahan gave this 

 in y? oz. doses, and in three severe cases complete relief was 

 obtained in from 15 to 20 minutes. An early and complete con- 

 valescence followed. In the hands of J. H. Kelly of New Haven, 

 Conn., and T. S. Childs of Saratoga, N. Y. it proved for a time 

 invariably successful. The agent was given at once in a ^ oz. 

 dose, and followed by 1 to 2 drs. every hour or second hour accord- 

 ing to the size of the animal and the severity of the case. It has 

 proved less constantly successful in other hands perhaps because 

 of the severity of the case, and the atony and inactivity of the 



