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be removed, a little at a time, the parts rnbbed dry and cov- 

 ered with a dry woolen blanket. It may be repeated as 

 often as the fever rises. 



Diaphoretics. Besides these remedial methods of induc- 

 ing a revulsion and glow in the sliin with perspiration, there 

 may be resorted to the medicinal diap/ioretics. Among 

 these may be included copious drinks and injections of 

 warm water, acetate of ammonia, antimony, ipecacuan, or 

 pilocarpin, or one of the sedatives, aconite, veratrum, or 

 opium,, etc. Many a threatened acute inflammation has 

 been to a great extent cut short and nipped in the bud — 

 the stage of chill — by warm clothing, active hand-rubbing, 

 and such an apparently unscientific nanseant as tobacco. 



When the preliminary stage has passed and the hot stage 

 of the fever has set in, cooling and eliminating agents are 

 especially called for. 



Laxatives. In many cases, and especially in those with 

 marked constipation or bowels loaded with indigestible ma- 

 terials, a laxative is beneficial. For the horse, aloes, or, 

 often better, sulphate of soda, and for cattle or sheep, the 

 latter, or Epsom salts, will at once remove an irritant, cool 

 the general system, draw off much blood and nervous energy 

 to the bowels, and secure a considerable depletion and 

 elimination from the intestines. For swine, dogs, and cats 

 castor-oil or salts may be used, and for fowls castor-oil. If 

 the mucous membranes are yellow, the tongue furred, and 

 faeces scanty, hard, and foetid, a dose of calomel (horse or 

 ox, one drachm ; sheep or pig, one scruple ; dog, three 

 grains ; chicken, one-half graiii) with tartar emetic (horse or 

 ox, two drachms ; sheep, twenty grains ; swine, one-half 

 grain ; dog, one-fonrth grain ; chicken, one-eighth grain) 

 may be given and followed in ten hours by one of the laxa- 

 tives named above. 



Diuretics. In the absence of any manifest disorder of 

 the digestive organs, the laxative may be omitted and re- 



