622 ON THE PRESENT EPIZOOTIC AMONG CATTLE 
night, ol. lini. §viij, hydrarg. chlorid. 9j,antim. potassio-tart.3j, 
pot. nit. 3vj. 
\Sth. — No better. Continue medicine. 
19 th. — Symptoms not so urgent as they were. Continue me- 
dicine. 
20th,~- Improving. Give the medicine without the ol. lini., as 
the bowels are sufficiently relaxed. 
24 th. — Continues to improve. Discontinue the medicine. She 
is now quite well. 
Remarks . — When I am called to attend in good time, I 
abstract blood pretty freely, insert a seton or two in the dew- 
lap, and order a pint of linseed-oil to be given in gruel. Every 
twelve hours after this I give eight ounces of linseed-oil with 
hydrarg. chlorid., pot. nit., antim. potassio-tart., in doses appor- 
tioned to the case. I occasionally bleed a second or a third time, 
but I rely most on the first bleeding. I, also, order the animal 
to be so situated, as to have a pure and cool — but not a cold air 
to breathe, and to have for food green meat, succulent roots, 
mashes of bran and linseed, and thin oatmeal gruel to drink. I 
pursue this course until the inflammatory symptoms are com- 
batted, which will generally be the case in a few days. If no 
time has been lost, by administering a little sp. seth. nit., pulv. 
gentian, et ol. lin. daily, for some time after this, the animal will 
generally, but rather slowly, recover. If the breathing should 
continue, or again become hurried, and if, on applying my ear 
to the chest, I discover, by the absence of the murmur, that a 
portion of the lungs has become impervious — if there should be, 
in every act of breathing, a low wheezing whistling sound — if 
the pulse should be much agitated from a little exercise, and the 
body generally cold, I rest assured that the air-passages are 
either nearly filled with mucus, or there is hydrothorax. In the 
former case I employ the iodid. potas. in conjunction with 
petrol. Barbados, et pot. nit. ; and in the latter I give the diniod. 
cupri, combined with some stimulant, diuretic, and vegetable 
tonic. 
Drastic purgatives are highly injurious, and blisters do harm 
in every stage of the disease, excepting the first. Most especially, 
do I enter my protest against the use of blisters containing 
caustic substances. There is too much general disturbance 
and tendency to collapse, from an early stage of the disease, for 
these things to be advantageously employed. 
I certainly place much dependence on emollients, and I give 
the preference to linseed-oil ; for since I have adopted this plan 
of treatment, and have had my patient in due time, I have very 
rarely failed in effecting a cure. 
