TYPHOID FEVER; OR, CONTAGIOUS INFLUENZA IN THE HORSE. 
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grain doses three times daily for a few days. A very popular 
method of counteracting this condition is by the use of vegeta¬ 
ble or mineral astringents. The effects produced by these 
medicaments is but temporary, it is a delusion, and the results 
looked for are not obtained. The anodine treatment will often 
give excellent results in these cases, stopping the diarrhoea in 
two or three days. Preparations containing opium should be 
given with extreme caution, and when used at all should be in 
small doses and freely diluted with water. By the use of opium 
we may produce that complication which we most fear, that is 
cerebral congestion; as we all know how frequently this occurs 
in the use of this drug, and especially in a disease when there 
is a tendency to this complication. Sometimes a loss of appe¬ 
tite is very persistent, even after all other symptoms have passed 
away, this is due to a lack of tone in the digestive mucous tract, 
and should be treated in a way calculated to restore this lost 
function, bitter tonics, stomachics and stimulants best fulfill this 
indication. When the localization is upon the respiratory 
organs or pleura, the treatment must be modified to suit the 
complication. 
As soon as the lung lesion is manifest, it should be treated 
as an ordinary inflammatory disease. We have already resorted 
to bleeding and counter-irritation, this is now to be followed by 
ordinary treatment, good nursing, carefully watching for unfa¬ 
vorable complications in order to counteract them, and as care- 
fnlly avoiding too much curative treatment. Alcohol and turpen¬ 
tine has been highly recommended in this complication, but it 
is far more likely to do harm than good; except in the latter 
stages when benefit may be derived from its use if given in 
small and frequent doses. Alcohol, when given too freely, pro¬ 
duces results the very opposite of stimulation, tending to pro¬ 
duce blood stasis rather than to prevent it; its use in this way is 
therefore irrational. Turpentine, when used in small doses 
during the convalescing stage, may exert a certain beneficial 
effect upon the respiratory mucous membrane, but has decided 
disadvantages if used at any other time, owing to the irritating 
