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recommend quinine, one or two drachms, repeated every two or tfiree 
hours in severe cases. Also hypodermic injections of a solution of iodine 
as follows : 
No. 26. 2 Grains iodine, 
6 Grains iodide of potassium, 
1 Oz. water. 
Use a syringeful every hour in severe cases. In extreme ones, it is ad- 
vised that this be thrown directly into the veins ; also that the strength be 
kept up by stimulants ; among those recommended most strongly is car- 
bonate of ammonia. 
JBlain. 
When bloody murrain attacks the tongue it is called blaln. In the case 
of blain it is recommended to open the pustule freely from end to end, 
with a. sharp lancet, before the poison has been absorbed. Treat the 
same surface freely with the following : 
No, 27. 20 Grains chloride of lime, 
1 Oz. water. 
Mop the parts freely. 
Sulphuric or nitric acid, nitrate of mercury, lunar caustic, and other 
6trong caustics, are equally good. When it may be accomplished, burn- 
ing with a hot iron is advised. 
Foot and Mouth Disease, 
One other contagious disease will be necessary to be treated of here, 
as beginning to be of common occurrence, having prevailed more or less 
since its introduction into the United States in 1869. This is epizootic 
aptha, generally known as foot and mouth disease. Although a contagious 
febrile disease occurring in cattle and sheep, and communicable by trails* 
mission to swine and even man, it is fortunately rarely fatal, and ia 
jharacterized in animals by an eruption of small blisters in the mouth* 
rod between the olefts of the hoofs, and along the upper margin of th® 
soronet. It is a specific poison of obscure origin, remaining in the system 
1 !rom one to four days before producing its characteristic symptoms. 
How to Know It. 
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There, is an increase of temperature in the body, followed by an erup- 
ion of small blisters, of the size of a dime, situated on the tongue, th# 
oof of the mouth, inside the lips, and occasionally on the udder. Tho 
