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time, the parts rubbed dry and covered with a dry woolen blanket. 

 It may be repeated as often as the fever rises. 



Diaphoretics. Besides these remedial methods of inducing a 

 revulsion and glow in the skin with perspiration, medicinal dia- 

 phoretics may be resorted to. Among these may be included 

 copious drinks and injections of warm water, acetate of ammonia, 

 antim,ony, ipecacuan, ox pilocarpin, or one of the sedatives, aconite 

 veratum, or opium, etc. Many a threatened acute inflammation 

 has been to a great extent cut short and nipped in the bud — the 

 stage of chill — by warm clothing, active hand-rubbing, and such 

 an apparently unscientific nauseant as tobacco. 



When the preliminary stage has passed and the hot stage of the 

 fever has set in, cooling and eliminating agents are especially 

 called for. 



Laxatives. In many cases, and especially in those with marked 

 constipation or bowels loaded with indigestible materials, a laxa- 

 tive is beneficial. For the horse, aloes, or, often better, sulphate 

 of soda, and for cattle or sheep, the latter, or Epsom salts, will at 

 once remove an irritant, cool the general system, draw off much 

 blood and nervous energy to the bowels, and secure a considerable 

 depletion and elimination from the intestines. For swine, dogs, 

 and cats castor-oil or salts may be used, and for fowls castor-oil. 

 If the mucous membranes are yellow, the tongue furred, and 

 faeces scanty, hard, and foetid, a dose of calomel (horse or ox, 

 one drachm ; sheep or pig, one scruple ; dog, three grains ; 

 chicken, one-half grain) with tartar emetic (horse or ox, two 

 drachms ; sheep, twenty grains ; swine, one-half grain ; dog, 

 one-fourth grain ; chicken, one-eighth grain) may be given and 

 followed in ten hours by one of the laxatives named above. 



Diuretics. In the absence of any manifest disorder of the di- 

 gestive organs, the laxative may be omitted and refrigerant diur- 

 etics resorted to. Acetate of ammonia or potassa, nitre, tartrate 

 of potassa, carbonates of potassa or soda, may be used along with 

 sedatives. 



In cases of infectious disease with poisoning by ptomaines and 

 toxins the elimination of these by the bowels and kidneys is of the 

 greatest importance. 



Sedatives. Of the sedatives, aconite, bromide of potasium, ver- 

 atrum, hyoscyamus, or chloral hydrate may be used according to 

 the special indications. 



