7S PERITONITIS. 



in wMoh event morphine must be administered aubcutaneously in one 

 eightli grain doses. Wliere the medicine is not rejected laudanum is a 

 convenient preparation of opium, and should he given In twenty drop 

 doses. Should the animal show no signs of sleeping and the pain persists, 

 doubtless the dose could be safely repeated every hour and a half or two 

 hours until some relief is secured. Although obstinate constipation exists, 

 purgatives must not under any consideration be given during the acute 

 stage. Remember the costiveness arises from an inflammation of the 

 bowels, and they being unable to expel their contents. 



Hot applications to the abdomen are indicated, and it matters little their 

 character as long as they are hot. Nourishment should be given ice cold, 

 the most concentrated being demanded. *!« 



Partial or circumscribed peritonitis is as the name implies an inflam- 

 mation limited to a portion of the peritoneum. It is a complication of a 

 previous aflfection of the parts covered bythe inflamed membrane. Where 

 this inflammation exists, a disease of the tissues beneath may be inferred. 



Chronic peritonitis is less common than the acute. Occasionally the 

 latter eventuates in the chronic form, but rarely so; it is more often asso- 

 ciated with some diseases of the abdominal organs, previously existing or 

 present. As chronic peritonitis must sooner or later eventuate in death, 

 as it is insidious and its existence is rarely detected except at the autopsy, 

 an extended consideration is an absurdity. 



