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demanded from the outset. Between the two extremes 

 there are many grades, which demand a judiciously adjusted 

 intermediate treatment. The general principles only of each 

 characteristic form of treatment can be here formulated, it 

 being understood that no two cases can be most advantage- 

 ously treated in precisely the same way ; bat that according 

 to its special grade each case will demand its own specific 

 management applied according to the skill of the physician. 

 Regimen. An antiphlogistic diet will consist in a moder- 

 ate or very sparing amount of non-stimulating food of easy 

 digestion (wheat bran or oil-meal in warm, sloppy masli, 

 carrots, turnips, beets, potatoes, apples, pumpkins ; fresh, 

 tender, green grass, or in winter a little scalded hay, may be 

 taken as examples). Ruminants should have no food 

 necessitating chewing of the cud; thus the roots, etc., 

 should be pulped or boiled, and hay and even grass must be 

 interdicted until rumination is re-established. When food is 

 absolutely refused for days in succession, well-boiled gruels 

 of oat-meal, barley-meal, linseed-meal, bran, etc., may be 

 given from a bottle or by injection. Dogs and cats should 

 have only vegetable mush (unbolted flour, barley, or oat- 

 meal) with just enough beef -juice to tempt the animal to 

 eat a little. Milk with an admixture of oxide of magnesia, 

 or even lime-water, is often at once palatable and cooling. 

 JDrinJc should be pure water, cool if kept constantly fresh 

 before the animal, but warmed to something less than tepid 

 if supplied only at long intervals, so that the thirsty patient 

 is tempted to drink to excess and chill himself. Rest in a 

 clean, well-aired building, free from draughts of cold air 

 and with a southern exposure, is desirable, especially in 

 winter. The best temperature is usually sixty degrees to 

 seventy degrees, especially in inflammations in the chest, and 

 extremes of temperature are to be avoided. Clothing will 

 depend on the weather. In warm weather it may be often 

 discarded, while in winter it should always be sufiicient to 



