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a mustard poultice or a lotion of Spanish flies or other stimulant 

 may be employed. Unless the malady has an epizootic type, with • 

 prostration and a weak, rapid pulse, the bowels may be opened 

 by a laxative (3 or 4 drachms aloes), and the water or gruel the 

 animal daily drinks should contain }4 to i ounce nitre. As an 

 expectorant the patient may take salammoniac i oz. daily in the 

 drinking water, or this agent may be evaporated from a clean 

 chafing dish every two hours and inhaled. Or he may take bi- 

 carbonate of potash or soda, or iodide of potassium. If the cough 

 is troublesome, half a drachm of Dover's powder may be given 

 thrice a day or i grain chloride of apomorphine every hour. 

 Bromide of potassium or sodium may also be resorted to. Inhala- 

 tions or spray of sulphurous acid, or vapor of oil of turpentine 

 and insufflations of calomel may benefit as local applications. 

 The diet must be confined to sloppy bran mashes, cut roots, or 

 boiled barley, or oats. Hay should be withheld in the more acute 

 cases until improvement appears. Under treatment such as the 

 above and even without the medicinal part of it, the great 

 majority of cases will do well. 



In cases attended with high fever with strong full pulse and 

 bright red nasal membrane, the purgatives and diuretics are espec- 

 ially called for, and the former should have their action encour- 

 aged by frequent hot water injections. Twenty drop doses of the 

 tincture of aconite repeated four times a day, or ten drops every 

 three hours, will be useful. 



When the symptoms are of such a type as portend the access of 

 paroxysms of threatened suffocation, bleeding has been strongly 

 recommended, but unless resorted to in the first twenty- four or 

 forty-eight hours is rarely admissible. Also in weakened constitu- 

 tions and when the fever is of a low type; with small, weak pulse 

 and general dullness and prostration, the temporary relief obtain- 

 able from' blood-letting will not often counterbalance the danger 

 of increasing weakness, and the loss of recuperative power. In 

 such cases the application, of a strong mustard poultice for 

 several hours in succession, until an abundant effusion has taken 

 place into the skin and beneath it, has often the best effect by 

 virtue of its depletive and derivative action. Active friction of 

 the limbs to improve their circulation and increase their temper- 

 ature is also useful. 



