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milk, or in patients accustomed to animal food, lean meat, minced, 

 scraped or pulped. Warm baths are often advantageous, but 

 they must be given with great caution to avoid chill. 



Medicinal treatment is largely symptomatic. An excessively 

 high temperature (104'' and upward) may be met by warm 

 baths, or antipyretics — quinine, acetanilid, salicylate of soda, anti- 

 pyrine, phenacetin, or even damp compresses to the sides. As a 

 rule, however, it is not well to continue such agents as acetanilid, 

 antipyrine or phenacetin longer than is ab.solutely needful to re- 

 duce excessive temperature. 



Attempts have been made to check microbian proliferation by 

 antiferments, such as quinine, calomel, creolin, phenol, and phen- 

 acetin. The tonic action of quinine specially recommends it but 

 like all bitters it is obnoxious to a dog with a delicate stomach. 

 Calomel is especially recommended by Frbhner as a gastric and 

 intestinal antiseptic and ifs indirect action on the liver renders it 

 valuable in many cases. Creolin and carbolic acid exhaled from 

 saturated cloths tend to disinfect the air passages and give tone 

 to the mucosa. My colleague Dr. P. A. Fish gave carbolic acid, 2 

 per cent., and afterward 4 per cent, in normal salt solution, and 

 in doses of ^ to i drachm, subcutem once and twice a day. In 

 the initial .stages, it seemed often to be of great value, quieting 

 the nervous excitement, improving the general symptoms, and in 

 .some instances apparently cutting short the affection. Trasbot 

 recommended strong infu.sion of coffee, and Zippelius sodium 

 chloride, while others gave ergotin, or better hydrogen peroxide 

 in spray or as a draught. 



Eliminative treatment. As in all depressing contagious dis- 

 eases, we must favor elimination of the toxins, and in this ca.se 

 without risking any material encrease of debility. Calomel (7 

 grs.), sodium salicylate or benzoate (4 grs.), sodium bicarbonate 

 (7 grs.), potassium iodide (4 grs.), chlorate (7 grs.), or nitrate 

 (7 grs.) may be cited. Digitalis (i gr. ), strophanthus, or 

 caffeine are especially recommended by their power of encreasing 

 the tone of the heart when that has become weak or exhausted. 



For the respiratory symptoms we may employ the antiseptic 

 inhalations already named, or, in place of these, iodine or sul- 

 phurous acid. The nervous cough may be met by syrup of 

 poppies, or anise, by morphia, or codeia. (Recipe: morphinse 



