I20 VETERINARY OBSTETRICS. 



The agents and methods recommended for the cure 

 of this disease, are about as numerous and varied as. 

 are the theories regarding its pathology and cause. 

 Bleeding, purgatives, stimulants, sedatives, nerve tonics, 

 cutaneous stimulants, counter-irritants, electricity, etc.. 

 In the : present incomplete state of our knowledge 

 regarding this disease, it would be useless to attempt 

 to map out any specific line of treatment. Cases- 

 occasionally recover where no medicine is administered,, 

 and it is possible that a great many do so, independently 

 of the drugs given, which has the effect of deluding 

 the practitioner into the belief that the virtue lay in. 

 his medicaments. The following are the general' 

 directions given, as to medicinal treatment, in Zuill's 

 translation of Friedburger & Frohner's work on 

 pathology : 



"The treatment must especially consist in com- 

 bating the more alarming symptoms, — the paralysis. 

 of the voluntary and involuntary muscles, and the 

 cerebral depression. Avoid, as much as possible, 

 giving medicinal agents through the mouth, on account 

 of the danger of them going the wrong way, and 

 pneumonia resulting. Subcutaneous administration is 

 much preferable. We should counteract the general 

 paralysis and the nervous depression with stimulants, 

 administered preferably hypodermically : veratrine, , 

 caffeine, spirits of camphor, ether, nitrate of strychnine^, 

 sulphate of eserine (which excites also peristalsis).. 

 This last, however, like other remedies, is ofterki 

 absolutely inefficient. 



" The principal stimulants administered internally- 



