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The best remedies against Enteritis in general are — 

 Aconite 1, Arsenicum 2, Bryonia 1, Ehus Toxicodendron 1, 

 and Hot Water. After detailing the common principles with 

 reference to the application of these medicines ia Enteritis, I 

 shall proceed to discuss the questions of bleeding, and the use 

 of sedatives ia this disease. 



Aconite 1. — Sot Water. — Aconite is a remedy upon which 

 I place great reliance in diseases of the character at present 

 under consideration. Use it of the 1st dilution ia drachm doses, 

 mixed with 4 or 5 ounces of water, and repeat it every fifteen 

 minutes. Aconite given as directed, and hot water applied 

 almost ad libitum, to the body of the patient externally, and 

 occasionally ia doses of a pint iuternally, wiU constitute the 

 principal treatment for at least two or three hours at the com- 

 mencement. 



Enteritis, as I have before stated, in spite of treatment of 

 every known kiud, wUl in the generality of cases " have a dash" 

 as it were at the patient. The want of a knowledge of this fact 

 has led to the death of hundreds of horses. Instead of the 

 veteriaary surgeon carefaUy watching his patient, and by the 

 aid of simple agents striving to support the animal until the 

 vital energies are enabled to rally from the savage onslaught 

 made upon them, he has fallen into the fatal error of bleeding 

 to excess at the commencement of the disease, and then storing 

 the animal, to use a couplet from Hudibras, 



" With deletery med'oines, 



Which whosoever took is dead since, — " 



that I can scarcely write in terms of sufficient force to warn 

 men from committing similar errors ia future. The skilful 

 general never risks his aU upon a single venture ; he economises 

 his power until the right moment, and then he attacks the 

 enemy with an unsparing hand, and utterly annihilates him. 



