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siderable phenol was detected. Its action is slow, generally 
lasting about four or five hours, lowering the temperature in 
some cases from two to three degrees Generally it leaves no 
bad effect. Some writers combine it with stimulants, claim¬ 
ing it does not act so harshly on the heart, but 1 see it is freely 
discussed as to what stimulant should be used ; using spirits of 
ether with it, I see the Druggists Circular claims it is liable 
to form another chemical, as yet unknown, but 1 have used it 
along with alcohol and whiskey. In some cases of influenza 
and distemper, where there is a difficulty in swallowing, I 
combine it with simple syrup and syrup of wild cherry bark. 
Being there was, and still is, a great amount of catarrhal 
fever and influenza, I commenced using it freely this spring, 
and think 1 have had excellent results. In fourteen cases of 
influenza that 1 treated for 1 . H.Gaars at his stock farm, Lewes- 
ville, Md., amongst some of the brood mares there was a 
filly by Onward, also the three-year-old stallion Gambyion, 
two-year-old record of 2:40^ ; it was used with good success. 
In seven cases of influenza that I treated for Harman Shofer, 
a horse dealer in Richmond, Indiana, amongst which was one 
case where the temperature ran up to 107^°, 1 began on four 
dram doses every four hours, and by the time the second dose 
had acted—that is meaning three hours later—I found the 
temperature down to 104°. Kept up all that night, and next 
morning the temperature was 102^°; kept it up all that day 
and stopped that evening, when again the next morning the 
temperature was 104°. I then gave another four dram pill, 
followed up in an hour with some aconite, and in three hours 
the temperature was then 102°. 1 then stopped giving ace- 
tanilid that evening. I was then called to the country, and 
when I came back one of the hands came over and said that 
the horse had the colic and was rolling and tumbling. I went 
to see him, and found him in pain; gave hypodermic injection 
of four grains of morphia, injection of water with, a couple of 
ounces of glycerine, and in about twenty minutes he rose up 
and went to eating, and kept improving. After three more 
days I discharged him. 
In a case ol pneumonia, the horse Geo. Hays, a three-year- 
