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lealthy. No records have been found of a second attack in 
he same animal. 
The treatment has been one of uncertainty and of conffict- 
ng ideas. Dieckerhoff very properly remarks that lowering 
)f the temperature is not essential, and also that cinchonidia, 
:arbolic acid, salicylic acid, salicylate of soda, preparations 
>f iodine, hyposulphite of soda, etc., are impotent as febri- 
uges in these cases. He recommends internally sod. bicarb. 
•5 and 120 grammes, with cort. querc. 40 and 60 grammes ; 
ilso sod. or magn. sulph. in doses of 300 and 500 grammes; in 
>ther individual cases calomel in 2 and 3 gramme doses. For 
he pleuro-pneumonia he commends sinapisms, oil of mustard 
>r croton oil with turpentine. In later stages he commends 
yarm fomentations and poultices to the chest. For heart 
implications, he commends camphor, digitalis and valerian; 
liuretics he condemns. When suppurating pneumonia is 
hreatened he recommends setons in the. breast, and when 
>yothorax is evident he advises scarification of pleura by 
tieans of a trocar. For hydrothorax he advises the trocar. 
Friedberger and Frohner likewise hold the control of tem- 
>erature unnecessary unless in exceptional instances, when 
hey commend phenacetin, antifebrin, antipyrin, digitalis, al- 
ohol, ether and camphor; as heart stimulants, caffein, hyo- 
cin and atropine subcutaneously. Like Dieckerhoff, they 
ommend vesicants in chest complications ; for hydrothorax, 
ligitalis, alkalies, juniper berries, potassium acetate, and es- 
•ecially pilocarpine in doses of ^ and ^ grammes. For se- 
ere intestinal lesions they commend small doses of calomel 
1.0 and 4.0 grammes), and for threatened lung abscess, inhal- 
tions of creolin, carbolic acid, turpentine, etc. Dr. Fleming 
trongly advises the administration of quinine, and in cases 
'f threatened lung abscess or gangrene, carbolic acid. 
All are agreed that proper hygienic conditions are of the 
rst importance, the housing—if the habit of animal or kind 
f weather indicates housing at all—should be dry, comforta¬ 
ble, well ventilated. The food should be laxative, preferably 
Teen food, roots and bran. The control of the temperature 
> useless. I have seen cases with temperature of 104° to 
