120 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 often 
absolutely inefficient. 
“The principal stimulants administered internally 
