110 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Anodyne liniments may be used to the limb when the inflamma- 
tory symptoms are most acute, and for such purpose a nice liniment 
may be made by mixing together Lin. Sapo., milk, and Tinct. Camph. ; 
afterwards, as a stimulating liniment, two ounces of Lin. Sapo., with 
from half a drachm to a drachm of the "common carbolic acid, in 
eight or ten ounces of Aqua, may be rubbed in the leg twice or 
thrice daily. 
When the disease has passed into the third or passive stage, and 
when all febrile symptoms have departed and the appetite returned, 
but there is still remaining an infiltrated condition of the limb, then 
mineral tonics and medicines calculated to act on the absorbents 
should be given. The diniodide of copper may be given in half- 
drachm doses twice a day, with half a drachm of camphor, or Potass. 
Iodid. in doses of from half a drachm to a drachm, or Ferri Sulph. 
alternately with Potass. Iodid. The ammonio-sulphate of copper is 
another valuable preparation, and the Tinct. Ferri Sesquichlor. is 
sometimes very efficacious. Strychnine I have seen used, but not 
sufficiently often to justify me in offering an opinion as to its supe- 
riority over the other tonics just mentioned. 
By their several actions the aperients, stimulants, and diuretics 
will stimulate the absorbents to a more active absorption of the in- 
filtrating debris ; and the kidneys, together with the skin and intes- 
tinal canal, will relieve the system of the absorbed impurities. The 
ammonia and potass salts would, if present theories are correct, 
exert a diluent effect on the blood, and thereby transform its rich 
condition into one of comparative less quality. The tonics admin- 
istered after a subsidence of the inflammatory symptoms give tone 
to the vessels, and render their walls impervious to the passage, in 
an outward direction, of any more fluid than is requisite and con- 
sistent with the laws of nutrition, and produce a better quality of 
blood. 
There is yet an important branch of the treatment to which I 
have not referred, and that is the hygienic measures. As far as 
practicable it is incumbent upon the veterinary surgeon to place his 
patient in a condition where he will have the advantages of a tem- 
perate and healthy atmosphere. I say as far as practicable, for we 
cannot always present our patient with a clean, airy loose-box, and 
therefore we must render their place of abode as clean and free from 
deleterious gases as we can, and this may be done by disinfection 
and ventilation. The diet of an animal suffering from inflammatory 
oedema must not be of a too stimulative nature ; it ought to consist 
of what our medical brethren term “ slops.” Bran mashes, stewed 
hay, and hay tea, are appropriate food in the inflammatory stage ; 
but to this may be added subsequently boiled barley and carrots. 
Some such diet as this should be persisted in until the animal is in a 
fit state to receive his ordinary food. Exercise is a necessary and 
valuable aid to the resolution of the disease, and should be indulged 
in daily after the abatement of the acute inflammatory symptoms, 
as this natural tonic, through the medium of the muscular move- 
ments of the limb, promotes, by virtue of their direct action on the 
