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brought in contact with an abraded or punctured surface. Whe- 
ther or not it is capable of producing the disease by being 
applied to the unabraded mucous surface, or by merely conta- 
minating the air breathed by the unaffected, is certainly not 
proved as respects the human subject, although there are a few 
facts which seem to favour the affirmative conclusion. As 
regards, however, the horse and ass, there can be no doubt of 
the frequency of this mode of infection ; and, indeed, of the pos- 
sibility of the disease being generated de novo, when circum- 
stances such as those alluded to (§ 3.) contaminate the atmo- 
sphere, in which a large number of animals are confined. 
15. The method of cure is not so evident as the means of pre- 
vention. It may, nevertheless, be directed with the following in- 
tentions: — 1st. To arrest the progress, or change the character, 
of the local affection; — 2d. To moderate or modify the constitu- 
tional disturbance accompanying it; — 3d. To counteract the 
contamination of the fluids and soft solids taking place in its 
progress, and to support the means of life. These indications 
require means for their fulfilment, possessed of energy propor- 
tionate to the violence of the disease ; and whilst the local symp- 
toms are attacked, the constitutional powers should be assisted 
in opposing their extension. With these views, the more vola- 
tile stimulating antiseptics, or warm aqueous vapour conveying 
their fumes, may be inhaled or diffused in the patient’s apart- 
ment. Solutions of the chlorides may be sprinkled around ; or 
pyroligneous acid, with kr&ostote and camphor, or spirits of tur- 
pentine, may be scattered over the bedclothes, or put into an 
inhaler with warm water, and the fumes inspired. Any of the 
terebinthinates may be similarly used ; and solutions of either 
of these, or of the chlorides, may be frequently injected or em- 
ployed as gargles. The chlorate of potash, or Labarraque’s anti- 
septic solution, may also be tried internally, and stimulating 
diaphoretics prescribed, early in the disease. The vapour bath, 
with the fumes of camphor diffused in it ; the warm bath, con- 
taining a sulphuret, or consisting of water in which aromatic or 
stimulating herbs are infused ; the nitro-muriatic acid, or 
chlorine baths, &c. ; are severally deserving of trial. Terebin- 
thinate embrocations, as warm as they can be endured, may 
also be applied externally ; or turpentine may be given inter- 
nally, in small and often-repeated doses, with aromatics, &c. 
The various means detailed in the article Fever (§ 556 et seq .), 
with reference to the treatment of the typhoid varieties, may 
likewise be resorted to. 
16. Dr. Elliotson mentions (Med. Gazette , vol. vii, p. 655), 
that the veterinary surgeon of the 13th Light Dragoons treated 
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