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it, ensue. These increase ; the muscles of the jaw become affected, 
and the lower jaw strikes violently against the upper. The dog 
frequently becomes blind, either from ulcerations in the eye, or 
amaurosis, and at length he dies in convulsions. Such is the 
description of distemper, much resembling the disease as it appears 
in our country. 
When there is sickness and diarrhoea, the white hellebore is 
indicated ; nux vomica when there is loss of appetite, vomiting, 
and constipation; coculus and toxicodendron when there is weak- 
ness or paralysis ; belladonna -Jq when the dog begins to stagger 
about ; and copper when the convulsions actually appear. 
Glanders. — Asafoetida, arsenic, chlorine, belladonna, and 
barytes, are the medicines most to be depended upon, and especi- 
ally the two first in cases of farcy. 
In Grease the melampodium (black hellebore), is the most 
efficacious application. The eldest of four horses belonging to an 
officer was troubled with grease. Elixir of vitriol, &c. had been 
employed without success ; the evil was only aggravated, and the 
disease was at length communicated to the other three horses. 
There were bluish cracks on the fetlock, which exuded a foetid 
humour, and the limbs were excessively swollen. “ I gave,” says 
the author, “ to each of these animals | of black hellebore three 
times a-day : at the end of 14 days they were perfectly cured.” 
Bloody Urine. — Herr Kinder gives a singular case. “An ox,’ 
says he, “ passed bloody urine. I employed in vain saltpetre, 
Glauber’s salts, and other drugs prescribed in similar cases, but I 
administered at mid-day of cantharides. On the morning of 
the next day at 10 o’clock I returned to see my invalid : his urine 
had taken the natural colour again. He ate better, was lively, 
and voided his urine and his dung without any appearance of pain. 
Rabies. — Dr. Laville de Laplaigne has communicated the 
following observations. “ On the 20th of December, 1836, a 
setter was bitten on the nose by a mad dog. Several other dogs 
bitten by him became mad. I was sent to on the subject, and 1 
sent two flasks, of which belladonna (mother tincture), and the 
other belladonna, thirtieth dilution, were the contents. 
The first was employed to bathe the sore twice a-day ; dose ten 
drops in an ounce of water. 
The second was administered internally, the dose being one 
drop every morning for several days. The wound having cica- 
trized, the animal had his liberty given to him, and shewed no 
symptoms of madness. “ From this,” says the doctor, “ we may 
conclude that belladonna may be considered as a certain preser- 
vative.” The doctor, however, is travelling a great deal too fast. 
We must have a great many more instances of the efficacy of the 
