508 DISEASES OP THE HOESE. 



in some cases increases the after depression. Iodide of potash re- 

 duces the excessive nutrition of the congested organs and thereby 

 reduces the temperature; again, this drug in moderate quantities is 

 a stimulant to the digestive tract and acts as a diuretic, causing the 

 elimination of waste matter by the kidneys. Small doses of Glauber's 

 salts and bicarbonate of soda, used from the outset, stimulate the 

 digestive tract and prevent constipation and its evil results. 



In cases of severe depression and weakness of the heart digitalis 

 can be used with advantage. At the end of the fever, and when con- 

 valescence is established, alcohol in one-half pint doses and good ale 

 in 1-pint doses may be given as stimulants; to these may be added 

 1-dram doses of turpentine. 



In complication of the intestines camphor and asafetida are most 

 frequently used to relieve the pain causing the colics ; diarrhea is also 

 relieved by the use of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of potash, and 

 drinks made from boiled rice or starch, to which may be added small 

 doses of laudanum. 



In complication of the lungs iodide of potash and digitalis are most 

 frequently indicated, in addition to the remedies used for the disease 

 itself. 



Founder occurring as a complication of influenza is difficult to treat. 

 It is, unfortunately, frequently not recognized until inflammatory 

 changes have gone on for some days. If recognized at once, local 

 bleeding and the use of hot or cold water, as the condition of the ani- 

 mal will permit, are most useful, but in the majority of cases the- 

 stupefied animal is unable to be moved satisfactorily or to have one 

 foot lifted for local treatment, and the only treatment consists in" local 

 bleeding above the coronary bands and the application of poultices. 



During convalescence small doses of alkalines may be kept up for 

 some little time, but the greatest care must be used, while furnishing 

 the animal with plenty of nutritious, easily digestible food, not to 

 overload the intestinal tract, causing constipation and consequent 

 diarrhea. Special care must be taken for some weeks not to expose 

 the animal to cold. 



AFTEB EFFECTS OF INFLUENZA. 



Anasarca, oe purpura hemorrhagica. — A previous attack of influ- 

 enza is a common predisposing cause of this disease, which appears 

 most frequently a few weeks after convalescence is established. It 

 occurs more frequently in those animals which have made a rapid 

 convalescence and are apparently perfectly well than it does in those 

 which have made a slower recovery. 



Anasarca commences by symptoms which are excessively variable. 

 The local lesions may be confined to a small portion of the animal's 

 body and the constitutional phenomena be nil. The appearance and 

 gravity of the local lesions may be so unlike, from difference of loca- 



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