hypodermic medication. 
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Regarding the treatment of this disease, nearly every 
known element that acts as a nervous sedative has been used 
to a greater or less extent with varying degrees of results. 
Experience, however, leads me to believe that drugs play a 
minor part in the successful issue of the disease, and that no 
one drug can be relied upon as a panacea. That the disease 
must be treated according to the various stages of the dis¬ 
ease at the time we first see it is, to my mind, a very essen¬ 
tial feature. If seen in the early stages, when there is but 
partial rigidity of the voluntary muscles, and trismus is not 
perceptible, and deglutition is but little, if any impaired, a 
thorough purge at that stage is the sheet-anchor of success, 
followed with soda hyposulphite and carbolic acid, enjoining 
at the same time perfect quietude. 
If the patient is not seen until all the symptoms are well 
established, the jaws more or less firmly set and occasionally 
convulsions, to offer a purge at that stage must be guarded 
discriminately. However, if it can be administered without 
exciting the animal, it is beneficial. I have had the best suc¬ 
cess under these circumstances by administering subcutane¬ 
ously sulphate of eserine and dilute hydrocyanic acid, by 
allowing the animal to drink alternately the bromide of pot¬ 
ash and hyposulphite ; and if the disease is the result of an 
injury, thoroughly cleanse the wound and treat it antisepti- 
cally. 
HYPODERMIC MEDICATION. 
Translated by Riohaed Middleton, A.B., D.V.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
These medicines, in proper form, are placed in the subcu¬ 
taneous connective tissue by means of a syringe adapted to the 
purpose ; from this point they enter the general circulation, 
and ultimately spend their force upon the organism. 
This syringe is filled with a sterilized solution of the de¬ 
sired medicine at a temperature of about 86°F ; the instrument 
is then inverted, and the needle placed in position upon its 
end. In order to exclude any air which may still be in the 
