102 THE CANADIAN HOESE 



Powdered opium, . ' 1 dr. 

 Extract of belladonna, 1 dr. 

 Made into a ball with linseed 

 meal and honey or molasses. 



Extract of hyoscyamus, 1 dr. 

 Calomel, ... 2 scr. 

 Linseed meal, . . 2 dr. 

 To be made into a ball with 

 honey. 



We do not consider purgatives so very essential in the early 

 .stages. Oily laxatives are suflGicient ; give a quart of either 

 linseed or castor oil. Bland fluids, such as linseed tea, 

 should be injected into the rectum ; mustard poultices, or a 

 newly flayed sheep-skin, should be applied to the loins, but 

 blisters containing Spanish flies (cantharides) or turpentine 

 must be avoided ; bandage the legs, and clothe the body, and 

 encourage perspiration. He should be encouraged to drink 

 freely of linseed tea or well boiled gruel, with a little car- 

 bonate of soda dissolved in it. In the secondary stages, 

 when the acute symptoms have subsided, the bowels must be 

 freely opened so as to carry ofi' the fluids of the blood, and 

 thus lessen the work of the kidneys. For this purpose give 

 the following ball : — 



/ Croton beans finely powdered, . 15 beans, > 

 1 Extract of belladonna, ... 1 drachm, > 



to be made into a ball, with linseed meal and honey. When 

 recovery takes place, he must be carefully nursed, and fed 

 on good sweet hay or oats, linseed tea, &c., and avoid any- 

 thing likely to stimulate the kidneys. 



PEOFUSE STALING (DIUEESIS.) 



Diuresis or polyurea, sometimes erroneously called diabetes, 

 is very common in this country ; its pathology, however, is 

 not yet fully investigated. It consists principally of simple, 

 increased secretion of urine, without any apparent structural 

 disease of the kidney, or much alteration of the composition 

 of the urine, so characteristic of this affection in man. 



