24 The Farmers Veterinary Adviser. 



nitis and skin-disease. Diseases of the brain (cramps, 

 convulsions, chorea, paralysis,) and skin-eruption are ex 

 ceedingly common in the advanced stages. The eruption 

 is pecuhar, consisting of small blisters, containiag often a 

 reddish or purple fluid.- 



Treatment. A warm, comfortable bed, pure air, and a 

 milk, or bread and milk diet are important. The diet 

 should not be so exclusive in dogs having had animal food 

 only. 



A mild emetic, (antimonial vi^ine), or a slight laxative, 

 (castor oil), may be followed by tonics, (gentian, quinia,) 

 febrifuges, (saltpeter), and expectorants, (ipecacuanha"), 

 with perhaps an anodyne, (belladonna). As fever subsides, 

 tonics must be given freely (wine, quinia, sulphate of iron. 

 Fowler's solution). In all the various complications treat 

 as for the different diseases, but avoid weakening reme- 

 dies, and keep up tonics, stimulants, and a rich diet. 



MALIGNANT CHOLEEA. ASIATIC CHOLERA. 



This attacks the domestic quadmpeds and birds simul- 

 taneously with man, and has been produced experiment- 

 ally by feeding the dried bowel discharges. These were 

 found to increase in virulence from the first to the third 

 day, and to decrease to the fifth day, after which they 

 were harmless, (Sanderson). 



Symptoms. Muscular cramps, great prostration, partial 

 loss of motor power and excitabihty, great lowering of the 

 body temperature (80° F.), deathly-cold bloodless ex- 

 tremities, viscid tardily-flowing blood, and lastly, violent 

 abdominal pains and fluid bowel dejections, often having 

 the specific rice-water appearance. 



Treatment. The disease is mainly important as propa- 

 gating a poison so fatal to the human being, hence the 

 most perfect disinfection of all bowel dejections is imper- 

 ative, together with the seclusion and burial of the sick 

 and dead. As an example of current treatment may be 

 named, aromatics, (oil of anise, oU of cajeput, oil of juni- 



