ACETANILID (OR ANTIFEBRIN). 
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stimulants, etc. The case died after leaving my hands, some 
three or four days later. My successor having exercised him 
by walking him to the yard and back, etc. All stimulants and 
medicine removed for about one day. I informed the owner the 
horse would die as a result. When I left the owner the doctor 
in charge stepped in, and informed the owner that the animal 
would recover. The animal died while Dr. No. 2 was reporting 
the case. I attribute it to over-exertion, etc. 
Most of the cases were those of influenza, many of them 
young and green horses. Acetanilid was used in drachm doses 
and in combination with the fluid extract of belladonna, tincture 
nux vomica, tincture cinchona, and alcohol. This mixture was 
given every three or four hours. In some cases I continued this 
mixture for six days, where fever so indicated and I felt it was 
doing no harm. At other times it was used only one day, and 
followed with nitrate of potassium in drinking water. In other 
cases ammonium chloride, pulv. nux vomica, quinia sulph., etc., 
were given in bolus. In some cases I found the pulse became 
soft in character, there was at times great depression and weak¬ 
ness, the number of pulse beats falling below the normal, as was 
the case in No. 1 ; there were also others. In other cases the 
pulse became intermittent. This I noticed mostly in typhoid 
diseases, in what is called pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa, etc. 
I have used acetanilid in drachm doses, every three or four 
hours, for twelve days, and in a few cases even longer, without 
any bad results. 
This drug should be used with care, however, to prevent any 
accident that might otherwise occur. I can recall two cases, 
one in my practice and one in my friend’s practice. My friend 
had just left the stable after giving a very favorable prognosis, 
that the animal would recover, and it was doing nicely, when it 
dropped dead. In my case the horse was small; the drug had 
been given, as was my custom, night and day, every three or 
four hours ; the animal was doing well, when last seen, the day 
before, but the treatment was to continue till the next day. On 
calling the next morning, to my surprise, I learned the animal 
