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water. However, in those cases of sub-acute indigestion, in im¬ 
pactions, constipation or any of those conditions of torpidity 
where the symtoms are not urgent and the constant presence of 
the veterinarian not required, it may be given per orem during 
his absence, always sufficiently diluted to prevent the alcohol 
from attacking the mucous tnembranes. The dose of eserine is 
from y to y grain. One dram of the above solution is a safe 
and usually effective dose for an animal of 1,000 pounds. In 
fifteen minutes after the administration of a full dose, there is 
slight uneasiness, colicky pains, loud intestinal murmurs, fol¬ 
lowed by passages of flatus and faeces ; after an hour its effect: 
gradually subsides during the succeeding two hours. It should' 
always be used cautiously in pregnant animals, as during this 
period the uterus is highly sensitive and the muscular walls more 
susceptible to its stimulating, action. The use of eserine has, 
entirely revolutionized the treatment of these bowel affections. . 
Those obstinate “all night” cases are now brought to a sud<&QJCUi 
and satisfactory termination in one hour, paracentesis of the 
colon is very seldom performed, passing the probang to relieve 
gastric distention is out of date, and of eserine it may truly be 
said, it is Nature’s remedy. 
SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES FOLLOWING, 
PARTURITION. 
By Dr. A, G. Alverson, Bloomington, Ill, 
A Paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association. 
Under this heading I shall confine myself to the mare and 
cow, and, of course, shall not touch in the class of accidents. 
Metritis.— In the mare this disease is considered by many 
authentic writers quite a serious disease; especially Fleming, in 
reading which one would be led to give a serious outlook to 
every well-developed case of inflamed womb. 
Symptoms .—Quite often the first symptoms are those of 
colicky pain. Then a discharge from the vagina, with a more 
