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are: wine, essence of turpentine, ammonia carbonate, 
brandy and dilute alcohol. These medicines are 
recommended to be given in the shape of clysters, 
The most used external stimulants, are frictions with 
turpentine, camphorated oil, oil of mustard, croton oil, 
diluted ammonia, etc.; and frictions of stibiated oint- 
ment (1:4), cold and warm compresses, cold douches 
upon the head, the application of Mayor’s hammer 
along the spinal cord, taking care to cover the skin 
with a woolen cloth, etc. Some veterinarians have 
used electricity with advantage. Bleeding has been 
found useful in some cases, and valueless in others. 
“We should use drastics to combat the cessation of 
intestinal peristalsis, those which likewise act as 
derivatives upon the digestive canal, such as eserine, 
tartar emetic, croton oil (in mucilaginous decoction), 
sulphate of soda, etc. Injections, or a rectal exploration, 
frequently repeated, and the manual extraction of fecal 
matters, have a similar action to that of these agents. 
‘Spasms and general excitement should be combated 
by morphine injections, injections of chloral hydrate, 
inhalations of chloroform, etc.” 
Personally, I have had good results from the 
administration of a saline purgative (if deglutition was 
not impaired), or the hypodermic injection of sulphate 
of eserine, followed by nux vomica in diluted alcohol, 
orally, or liquor strychnia, subcutaneously ; extraction 
of fecal matters, also any retained membrane, and 
enemas; puncturing the rumen; catheterization of the 
bladder; cutaneous stimulation by the application of 
diluted acetic acid or vinegar; the body covered with 
