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developed and burst, the tonics must be even more freely 

 given, tlie mineral acids may even give place to prepa- 

 rations of iron, and the diet must be made increasingly 

 liberal. But throughout the whole progress of the disease 

 the bowels should be carefully watched. Costiveness may 

 quickly undo all that has been gained, hence any indica- 

 tion of this should be met by laxative food (boiled flaxseed, 

 etc.), or, this failing, by injections or laxatives. Similarly, 

 if a freer action of the kidneys seems to be necessary for 

 elimination of waste matters or to reduce fever, diuretics 

 should be continuously kept up. 



Treatment of Adynamic Inflammation and Fevee. In 

 treating low asthenic or adynamic inflammation all de- 

 pression and depletion is to be carefully avoided. Even 

 laxatives must be employed with extreme caution. If ab- 

 solutely necessary it is best to give them in small (half) 

 doses and supplement their action by liberal injections of 

 hot water. Elimination of waste matter from the blood 

 and system is still to be sought, but it must be by stimulat- 

 ing diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, carbonate, acetate, or 

 muriate of ammonia, digitalis), and direct stim,xilants and 

 tonics must be given from the first (ammonia, wine, strong 

 ale, whisky, brandy, ether, gentian, calumba, nux vomica). 

 For the horse the following may serve as an example ; 

 5 . Sweet spirits of nitre, four ounces ; sulphuric ether, two 

 ounces ; tincture of gentian, ten ounces ; digitalis, one dram. 

 Mix. Dose, two ounces in a pint of cool water four times 

 a day. When there is great debility and prostration, am- 

 moniacal and alcoholic stimulants must be given freely, 

 while if the fever heat rises very unduly the cooling diuretics 

 (citrate, tartrate, or acetate of potassa, or nitre, etc.), and 

 even sedatives (bromide of potassium, chloral hydrate, sa- 

 licin, salicylate of soda), must be resorted to. In weak or 

 prostrate subjects antipyrin may often be used with ad- 

 vantage, as in moderate doses it effectually lowers the tern- 



