TYPHOID FEVER; OR, CONTAGIOUS INFLUENZA IN THE HORSE. 
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TYPHOID FEVER; OR, CONTAGIOUS INFLUENZA IN THE HORSE. 
By Prof. W. L. ZUILL, M.D., D.V.S. 
(Continued from page ioi) 
Treatment.— Drugs of every description have been used 
in the treatment of this disease, and often without method 
or judgment. The random administration of drugs usually 
being more productive of harm than good, and not infrequently 
is tn<^ pharmaceutical combination such, that the drugs counter¬ 
act eacn othei, and pioduce incompatibles. Exhaustion of the 
system is most effectually produced by the simultaneous admin¬ 
istration oi ^rugs, which exert an opposite therapeutic influence.. 
There are but few articles written on this subject, that do not 
contain the wildest inconsistent theories, with regard to the 
remedies advised. Almost every practitioner pretends to have 
a specific foi this disease, as indeed for all others that are diffi¬ 
cult to treat, and which, when tried, are found to be of little 
value. We will not take into consideration anything that has 
been wiitten or advised on this subject, but by bearing in mine! 
certain well-known clinical facts, will by deductive reasoning 
try to reach what we believe to be reasonable conclusions in 
the treatment of this disease. 
The medical tieaiment of this condition, must entirely de¬ 
pend upon the symptomatology which the disease presents, that 
is to say that drugs must be administered to counteract the dan¬ 
gerous symptoms as they arise. The means used to reach this 
result must necessarily be as varied, as are the symptoms, and 
complications with which we must contend ] therefore there is no 
systematic treatment for influenza, or typhoid ever in the horse. 
Theie are, however, general indications which are suitable to 
all cases, especially when the treatment begins with the first 
symptom. 
It is these general measures to which M. Trasbot had called 
special attention in 1883, at a meeting of the Central Society of 
Veterinary Surgery. 
