lOG The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



The time would vary for the different States, but the ear- 

 lier or later traffic for the extreme North should be by direct 

 route without intermediate unloading. -A general resti'ic- 

 tion of this sort, with the expense levied on all the States, 

 would be more economical and satisfactory than a supervision 

 by each State of its own frontier. 



Treatment should never be called for. It may, however, 

 be resorted to with less danger than in the case of a true 

 plague. In some cases emollient drinks and enemas, soft 

 food, and stimulating fever medicines have been followed 

 by recovery. Chlorate of potassa, niti-e, iodide of potassium, 

 and carbolic acid have evidently been of advantage. Wet- 

 sheet packing, as for Lung-fever, should be beneficial, and 

 refrigerant or stimulating diuretics (digitalis, nitre, or ni- 

 trous ether), according to the indications of the particular 

 case. Peculiarities in different cases would demand a vari- 

 ation of treatment. The diet throughout should be of soft 

 mashes, and a return to ordinary fibrous aliment made slowly 

 and carefully, patients being liable to be cut off by gastro- 

 enteritis. 



CANINE MADNESS. BABIES (hYDEOPHOBIa). 



A specific bacteridi.an disease of the genus canis (dog 

 wolf, fox) and the cat, and transmissible by inoculation to 

 all the domestic animals and to man. It is marked by dis- 

 orders of intellectual, emotional, and nervous functions, al- 

 tered habits, irritable temper, optical delusions, spasms of 

 the muscles of the eyeballs and throat, paralysis, and more 

 or less fever. 



Causes. Inoculation by bite is the usual (almost invari- 

 able) cause, yet cases arise also from other channels of con- 

 tagion. Season, climate, abuse, privation of water, improper 

 food, muzzling, etc., have no effect further than they serve 

 to produce a febrile state and hasten the development of 



