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105° go through the entire course of the malady withou 
medicine, and do well. In one case I recall a newly import 
ed French draft stallion with a temperature of 107.5 0 F. fo 
a week going entirely without medicine-, fed moderately dur 
ing the entire time, and made a prompt and complete recov 
ery. Quinine will not, as a rule, lower the temperature, evei 
in very large doses. Phenacetin, acetanilid, etc., in full ounc< 
doses, bring temperature down to near the normal, but onh 
temporarily, and apparently exert no lasting beneficial effect 
The effects of alcoholic stimulants are not readily discernible 
Why the enormously engorged and passive liver shoulc 
be so completely ignored in the therapeutics of this malady 
is more than I can understand. The icterus is certainly th< 
most constant symptom during the life of the animal, and he 
patic engorgement the most complete lesion found on au 
topsy. To the end of relieving this condition I have usee 
in a few of our most recent cases, with apparent benefit 
aloes 3i, calomel grs. xv, and corrosive sublimate grs. ii, ii 
pill twice daily for two days, or until bowels respond or ic 
terus diminishes. Other hepatic stimulants can doubtless bt 
used with equal promise, or possibly would prove even bet 
ter, such as podophyllin, muriatic acid, etc. In lung anc 
pleural complications in our experience, vesicants to sides 0 
thorax rarely do good, but frequently do harm by causing th< 
animal great agony and consequent restlessness. 
Hot fomentations, poultices, or a mild stimulating or ano 
dyne liniment well rubbed into chest and covered with 1 , 
woolen blanket, has, in our hands, proven equally service 
able and less dangerous. In hydrothorax 1 and 1^ grs. pilo 
carpin hydrochlor. hypodermically, seems of special value 
This failing, the trocar should be resorted to. In other cases 
where no applications are made to the chest, the animals ap 
pear to do fully as well. In inflamed tendons, sheaths and 
synovial bursas, we have found best results in earlier stages 
from the application of a mild liniment, with aconite and chlo 
roform as essentials ; later, stimulants or vesicant applications 
may be made with benefit. 
The prevention of the spread and the extirpation of this 
