TYPHOID FEVER; OR, CONTAGIOUS INFLUENZA IN THE HORSE. 
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will be kept more nearly the normal level. There is, therefore, 
some advantage to be gained by using these drugs. 
Among other drugs, sometimes of value in this disease, we 
find digitalis. It, is of value in those cases when there is a 
marked and exaggerated action of the heart; it counteracts those 
influences which produce this condition, and stimulates those 
nerves which control or inhibit the over activity of this organ. 
In this way digitalis tends to counteract the flow of blood to 
points when there is a tendency to stagnation, and may there¬ 
fore be useful, and in many cases indicated. 
Quinine, one of the most valuable remedies in this disease, 
reduces temperature, and appears to act by stimulation of the 
ganglionary nervous system. Quinine appears to give much 
better results when it is combined with acetanelid, and given in 
30 grain doses each, four or five times a day. In this combina¬ 
tion they seem to exert a much greater influence upon the 
pyrexia than either alone; it appears as if the therapeutic 
action of one drug aided and influenced the action of the other, 
or that the effect of each upon the system was what was required 
in order that the action of the others may reach its full capacity. 
Stimulation will often be urgently required, strong infusions of 
coffee with a little good whiskey, will give the happiest results 
in these cases. From 16 to 32 ounces of infusion, one ounce of 
coffee to two ounces of finished product, with from two to four 
ounces of spiritus furmenti every 24 hours, will often give mar¬ 
velous results, especially if associated with from 30 to 60 M 
doses of the tincture of nux vomica. 
I know that this suggestion to use nux vomica in high fevers 
is likely to meet with considerable criticism, and that some will 
even hold up their hands in therapeutic horror, but this will 
only be from those who have never tried it. 
From a review of the indications for the general treatment 
of this disease, it will be seen that bleeding should be immedi¬ 
ately performed before any localization occurs. If we are liberal, 
and at the same time judicious, in this repect only the best re¬ 
sults can follow, the fever is counteracted, temperature lowered, 
