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between it and every other system. Can we increase the insen- 
sible perspiration ? If we can, we are combatting the disease with 
powerful weapons. We are calling into action a derivative 
which in extent and degree of influence is unequalled. Is there 
any diaphoretic as it regards cattle? I believe that there is, and 
one on which considerable dependence may be placed. The 
white antimonial powder (I so designate it in distinction from the 
black sulphuret of antimony so much used in horse-practice), the 
pulvis antimonialis of the human practitioner, I do regard as a 
valuable diaphoretic in cattle : — I have generally used it in 
combination with opium and ginger. I have, or fancied that I 
have, both soothed and roused my patient — I have lessened the 
morbid irritation and the pain which existed in the spinal chord 
or its membranes, or the muscles nearest the affected part — I have 
accomplished this by the influence of the sedative, while, by in- 
creasing the energy of the capillary vessels of the skin, I have 
given an outward direction to the mischief, and have disposed 
the parts and the system generally to return to a state of healthy 
action. 
Warmth , Clothing. — There is one auxiliary here, without 
whose co-operation all other appliances would be powerless, and 
of whose influence, and almost of whose name we seem to be 
in a manner ignorant in the greater part of our practice on all 
our quadruped patients — I mean Comfort. I am as ardent an 
advocate for proper ventilation as any one can be ; I want no close 
confined cow-house, or stable, or kennel ; no stationary empoisoned 
atmosphere : but I do want, and l demand for our patients, com- 
fort; a comfortable habitation, a comfortable bed, comfortable 
clothing, and comfortable food; and, from the peculiar tempera- 
ment of cattle, I particularly demand it for them. I believe 
that, with the exception of the rot in sheep, more than half the 
losses of the farmer are attributable, directly or indirectly, to a 
neglect of this. The palsied cow — place her if it be possible on a 
somewhat inclined surface that her urine and her feces may be as 
little as possible sources of annoyance ; bed her up warmly; clothe 
her warmly ; supply her with warm gruel ; give her, but not in 
too great quantities, the food she likes best; turn her once or 
twice in the day ; admit the external air in sufficient quantity to 
carry aw r ay every unpleasant or unwholesome effluvium, but suffer 
no current to blow upon her: thus you will adopt the best means 
to insure the effect of your internal remedies. 
External Applications. — Little dependence can be placed 
on most, perhaps I may more properly say on any of these, ex- 
cept in the early and curable stage of the disease; and then they 
must be thoroughly rubbed in, or they will not penetrate through 
