136 
STRANGULATED HERNIA, ETC. 
If these symptoms were not ameliorated, in a few days, 
about the eighth or ninth the animal sank and died. 
Forty cases were admitted in about five weeks, and four 
of these died. 
The treatment pursued was, an inducement to feed by 
allowing a more nutritive and succulent diet, and the ex¬ 
hibition of stimulants combined with febrifuge medicines. 
The Liquor Ammoniae Acetatis cum Spiritus JEtheris Ni- 
trici was given in generous doses three times a day, alter¬ 
nated with fever balls of nitre, tartar emetic, and digitalis; 
the nostrils were steamed to induce an excess of secretion 
and defluxion; the throat and neck, and in the more severe 
cases, the sides, were vesicated with the Linimentum Lyttae; 
occasional enemata were thrown up, the extremities swathed 
in flannel, and the body warmly clothed. This treatment 
proved most effectual, and on the animals becoming con¬ 
valescent, the vegetable and mineral tonics were adminis¬ 
tered morning and evening, and in some of the more debili- 
tated cases arsenious acid was sprinkled on the corn, the 
quantity being increased as they were able to bear it. 
I would bear record to the well-known fact that aloes in 
such cases is inadmissible. The system is already in .a 
highly debilitated state, as indicated by the excessive oedema, 
and under such circumstances a purgative is inadmissible. 
Na}^ more, I am convinced that a dose of physic under such 
circumstances is death to the patient, and from the moment 
the practitioner unfortunately exhibits a dose of aloes he 
may get ready for a post-mortem examination. Under such 
circumstances, aloes is poison. 
The disease under description was of the epizootic 
typhoid type, and strangely coincident with it was the fact 
that typhus fever was attacking at the time some of the men in 
the Hussar barracks, not far from the artillery lines, whereas 
there existed nothing of the kind among the men of the 
artillery, neither did the epizootic appear among the Hussar 
horses, except I believe in one or two solitary instances, and 
that after it had totally disappeared from the artillery 
stables. 
The only suspicious circumstance attached to the artillery 
stables was the fact that the urine had been caught in pots, 
sunk in the stalls under the horses'’ bellies ; one pot under 
each horse of eighty or ninety in a stable, as no efficient 
means of drainage at present exists in our cavalry stables in 
India. This, added to the impoverished condition many of 
the horses were in from sickness and dearth throughout the 
year, added to the heavy draught-work they have to undergo 
