CONTAGIOUS BLOOD DISH ASUS. 73b 



treatment. In full-blooded, plethoric animals, bleeding freely is 

 recommended by certain authors. We doubt its efficacy. We 

 doubt also the effects of purgatives, although we have seen them 

 praised. The following may, however, be tried : to full grown cat- 

 tle give £ lb. each of Epsom and Glauber's salts, dissolved in warm 

 water, with the addition of \ or 1 oz. of extract of ginger, or the 

 same quantity of the tincture of capsicum. Further remedial deple- 

 tion is not advisable. 



The following should be given two or three times a day in a 

 pint of water : — 



Hydrochloric acid , 1 dr. 



Chlorate of potash - 2 " 



Muriate of ammonia , 4 " 



In bloody murrain, Youatt recommends : — 



Chloride of lime '.,'. 2 to 4 dr. / 



Prepared chalk *....... 1 oz. 



Tincture of opium (laudanum) , 2 dr. 



Mi". Finlay Dun gives the following : — 



Sulphite of soda lot. 



Chlorate of potash , 1 " 



Give in two quarts of water, two or three times a day. 



In extreme cases (and they are nearly always extreme), iodine, 

 in the following solution, may be injected directly into the veins : — 



Iodine ,-: 2 gr. 



Iodide of potassium 5 " 



Water... » 1 oz. 



using a syringeful every hour. 



Carbonate of ammonia may be used as a stimulant to keep up 

 the strength. Carbolic acid in A dram to 1 dram dqses in water 

 may be given as antiseptics. To prevent the extension of the dis- 

 ease, great care and the best management are needed. The infected 

 carcasses should be burned or deeply buried, after cutting them up 

 and spreading quicklime on them, and stables and sheds should be 

 thoroughly disinfected. It is desirable to remove the herd to higher 

 grounds, and confine the young cattle in the yard for several hours 

 during the dayi if their pasturage is rank, or in well-ventilated 

 stables. 



These medical treatments may answer in both kinds or forms 

 of Anthrax, but are rarely successful in either case. In the Black 

 Leg, we have seen setons in the dewlap followed with good results 

 as preventives. A seton,. or what is generally called a rowel, is in- 



