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especially after the addition of a small quantity of alcohol 
Results can be expected from strychnine in the handling of a 
paralysis or a paresis which is not referable to pathological 
or mechanical causes. In any case, strychnine must not be 
brought into use until the inflammatory symptoms have dis¬ 
appeared ; under the same rule this agent may be used with 
benefit in disordered sensibility (amaurosia). It is a power¬ 
ful and reliable antidote to chloral hydrate poisoning 
Horses and cattle take gr. fr-i. I have seen threatening 
symptoms follow a dose of gr. i. Ellenberger only succeeded 
in saving a horse that had received gr. i^, by injecting atro- 
pin I-or sheep and goats the dose is gr. -jV-J; for dogs, gr. 
If toxic symptoms manifest themselves, do not delay 
atropin. J 
Thalhnum Sulphuricum. Easily soluble in water, or water 
and glycerine. Introduction of the acid solution is quite 
painful. If an antipyretic effect is desired in a medium sized 
dog, the animal receives primarily gr. * of morph, hydrochl., 
winch is followed in ten minutes by gr. ix of thallin. sulph. 
1 he reduction occurs regularly, and lasts twelve to sixteen 
hours. 
Veratnnum. Dissolved in alcohol, and then diluted with 
glycerine or water. Locally very irritating. Up to the 
present time almost exclusively used in rheumatism, and with 
good results. Cagny commends veratrin injections in pneu¬ 
monia ; in three cases where he prescribed this treatment he 
saw the pyrexia diminish, and a rapid convalescence follow. 
He dissolved one part of veratrin in twenty.five parts of 
alcohol, and introduced 3 i-ii of the same. Cattle and horses 
take gr. f-i; swine, gr. f-£; dogs, gr. f 
Mertens reports the death of two horses after receiving 
gr. n dissolved in one ounce each of alcohol and aqu. distill.; 
they expired under symptoms of clonic spasms and nausea.’ 
Veratrin is also accounted a good stimulant to the pausen in 
tympanites in gr. ij-ii for an adult bovine. Since the intro- 
uction causes pain, precautionary measures must be taken 
(exercising, etc.). 
