56 REVIEW— COMPENDIUM OF CATTLE MEDICINE. 
we should abstain from bleeding. It is sometimes necessary to 
repeat the blood-letting, but rarely desirable to abstract a large 
quantity. It is of vast importance to produce purgation ; on* 
this, indeed, the recovery will greatly depend; but it is surpris- 
ing what enormous quantities of medicine are often exhibited in 
this complaint before this effect can be obtained. 
The following is a good formula : — 
Sulphate of magnesia or soda 1 lb. 
Flower of sulphur 2 oz. 
Ginger powder £ oz. 
Spirit of nitrous ether 1 oz. 
To be dissolved in warm water. 
To this, in very severe cases, may be added ten or fifteen drops 
of croton oil. One-third or half the above, with the exception of 
the croton, may be afterwards administered every six hours, until 
a proper effect is obtained. The strength and repetition of this 
purgative must be regulated by the severity of the affection. 
The draught should be given slowly and carefully ; and, when 
the severer affection is present, it would be desirable to administer 
it by means of Read’s syringe and tube, letting the latter reach 
half way down the oesophagus, otherwise there is great danger of 
the medicine entering the windpipe, and thus producing, as it 
has in numbers of instances, dangerous and fatal inflammation. 
The next point is to apply an active stimulant, such as tincture of 
cantharides with hartshorn and oil, to the whole course of the 
spine, which should be repeated more than once. The purgative 
should be assisted by the administration of frequent injections, 
and the bladder evacuated by means of the catheter. When 
purgation is established, vegetable tonics, such as gentian and 
ginger — two drachms of each — may then be given. 
For a farther account of this disease, I beg to refer to the 
pages of The Veterinarian, and particularly to that portion 
devoted to the records of the Veterinary Association, before the 
members of which body the subject has been introduced, and by 
them fully and satisfactorily discussed. 
w. c. s. 
