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to be almost a specific in certain cases in relieving the congestion of the 

 brain and the nervous symptoms produced by the latter. Iodide of pot- 

 ash reduces the excessive nutrition of the congested organs and thereby 

 reduces the temperature; again, this drug iu moderate quantities is a 

 stimulant to the digestive tract and acts as a diuretic, causing the elimi- 

 nation of waste matter by the kidneys. Antimony, in guarded doses of 

 one-half dram to one dram, repeated not more than two or three times, 

 will reduce excessive fever, and can be used with special advantage at 

 the first appearance of complications, but it must be used with care, as 

 it is an irritant to the digestive tract and may produce an intestinal com- 

 plication, causing a severe diarrhea. Small doses of Glauber salts and 

 bicarbonate of soda, used from the outset, stimulate the digestive tract 

 and prevent constipation and its evil results. 



In cases of severe depression and weakness of the heart, digitalis can 

 be used with advantage. At the end of the fever, and when convales- 

 cence is established, alcohol in one-half pint doses and good ale in pint 

 doses may be given as stimulants, to these may be added dram doses of 

 turpentine. 



In complication of the intestines camphor and asafetida are most fre- 

 quently used to relieve the pain causing the colics; diarrhea is also re- 

 lieved by the use of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of potash, and drinks 

 made from boiled rice or starch, to which may be added small doses of 

 laudanum. 



In complication of the lungs iodide of potash and digitalis are most 

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

 itself. 



Founder occurring as a complication of fevet 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 sttipefied 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 application of poultices. 



For congestion of the brain large does 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 with 

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



