286 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



by purgatives, or counter-irritants and change of habits. 

 A pound of sulphate of soda may be given at once to the 

 larger animals, or an ounce to a shepherd's dog and an 

 equivalent amount by injection. PodophyUin, aloes, etc., 

 may be used instead. Friction, with loose bandaging oi 

 the limbs, with or without excitation with mustard or am- 

 monia and cupping, or in small animals leeching over tho 

 region of the liver or mustard poultices are demanded. 

 After the bowels have been freely opened smaller doses of 

 Glauber salts or cream of tartar may be given daily to 

 keep up a free action of the bowels, and throughout the 

 diet must be soft (mashes, roots, green food,) and restricted 

 in quantity. Taraxacum with bitter tonics (Peruvian 

 bark, gentian, columba, gelsemium, etc.,) will be useful 

 during convalescence, and when the herbivorous patient is 

 well enough to be pastured in a field well stocked with 

 dandelion this may be resorted to. In carnivora and 

 swine ipecacuanha and guaiacum are useful in favoring free 

 elimination by the bowels and skin. 



Fowls attacked usually die, but the morbid state in which 

 the disease takes its origin may be counteracted in the re- 

 maining fowls by a free range, by cabbage, cooked pota- 

 toes, turnips and other vegetable food in place of grain, 

 and a small quantity of salt and Glauber salts in the food 

 or water. Excess of common salt is poisonous. 



CHBONIO INELAHMATION OF THE LIVEB. 



This is seen especially in horses and dogs, the liver often 

 attaining an enormous size or undergoiug fibrous degen- 

 eration (cirrhosis). It is attended by the same symptoms 

 as the acute form, but these are less urgent and dropsy of 

 the belly and legs is a common result. 



It is to be treated in the same manner as the acute form 

 but less energetically, mild laxatives with bitters daily and 

 above all a free range in the open air; for herbivora, 

 sound, juicy pastures and in case of malarious soil or im- 

 pure water, a change even for a few miles to a higher lo- 

 cality. 



