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stages, and croton oil, strychnine, tartar emetic in large doses in 
later stages. Digitalis, secale cornutum and the different salts, 
aloes, oil of turpentine, arnica flowers, nux vomica, cinchona, bry- 
onix alba, powdered ipecac and many others. 
Prognosis unfavorable. 
Zipperlen, in his work, recommends camomilla infusions, ap¬ 
plication of cold bran bags over the loins every ten minutes, 
sabina and similar remedies recommended by former mentioned 
authors. 
Friedberger and Frochner, in “ Pathology and Therapeutics,” 
recommend physostigma, warm and cold applications, shower 
baths on ear, ironing spine over a woolen cloth with hot flat-irons? 
electricity, chloral hydrate, inhalations of chloroform and many 
others. 
Our periodicals have given us nothing more definite than our 
previous literature, although the idea was entertained that eser- 
ine and pilocarpin were the hope of some of the profession, but 
we have received very unfavorable results. 
The following is the method adopted by me for twenty years, 
with better results than any of the before-mentioned authors. 
First, keep animal in natural position with straw props; next 
remove urine by catheter. Then give tincture of aconitum napel- 
lum and tincture of belladonna, alternately, every fifteen minutes 
—thirty-drop doses. 
The first indication of recovery is returning consciousness, the 
next a very hard black fceces and a small quantity of coagulated 
mucus. 
As soon as improvement manifests itself, reduce the dose to 
one-half, and give dose every hour. If paralysis remains give 
tincture nux vomica every two hours—thirty-drop doses. 
I have every reason to believe that if the aconite and bella¬ 
donna were given in the early stages of the malady, we would 
have scarcely any deaths to report. 
The tinctures used by me are pressed out of the fresh plant. 
I have used the fluid extracts and other tinctures with no uniform 
success. 
