8C DADD'S VETERINARY MEVICINE AND SURGERY 
it fail to have this effect, after a lapse of about six hours, the dose 
may be repeated. This plan of treatment is more raticnal, and 
has proved more successful, than that just alluded to. 
Should the disease progress so that the animal manifests symy- 
toms of coma, or lethargy, then chlorate of potass is the beat 
agent. It should be g*ven in half-ounce doses, every four or six 
hours, in the form of drench, or it may be dissolved in the water 
whick the animal is allowed to drink. A few doses cf the fol: 
lowing preparation must also be given: 
No. 9. Fluid extract of golden seal...... 
Fluid extract of juniper......... 
Mix. 
; each 4 os. 
Dose, two ounces every morning. 
Keep the rectum empty by injections, and, if the case be curable, 
such treatment as this, followed up by careful nursing, will ac 
complish the object. Corpsman, who is authority in this disease, 
fully indorses this treatment, and says: 
“ Hitherto the treatment of meningitis (sleepy staggers), whether 
real or supposed, has been antiphlogistic, but it is impossible to say 
that any benefit has ever been effected by the practice. The early 
stages of the disease are probably generally overlooked. So long 
as the horse retains his appetite and his consciousness, no suspicion 
of disease arises. It is only when exudation or effusion has been 
poured out in such quantity as to cause drowsiness and stupor that 
our suspicions are awakened, and thus it is very difficult to under- 
stand how blood-letting or purging could facilitate its absorption. 
Besides, we have seen that the tendency of such effusion is to pass 
into the circulation. Hence, the treatment which favors the re- 
absorption of the exudation, as I have previously explained, must 
be most effectual. For this purpose time is required, and the vital 
strength, instead of being lowered, should be supported. In short, 
the duty of the practitioner is to support the economy as much az 
possible, to give nutrients with moderate stimulants, to unload the 
bowels, frum time to time, artificially, by injections, etc., and in this 
way to gain time, which will enable the effused matters to pase 
through their nat.ral transformations, to be absorbed and ulti- 
mately excreted. It has appeared to me that the collection of 
serous Hii l, whether in the ventricles or over the surface ot the 
hrain, either with or without exudation, is consecutive n obstrue 
