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P. PAQUIN. 
hours; and three times a day add ten grains to one dram of 
powdered nux vomica to this dose. Give early and occasion¬ 
ally thereafter, injections of quarts, and indeed gallons, of 
warm water in the bowels; follow these medicines in forty- 
eight hours with one quarter to one pound of epsom salts if 
the bowels are not already loose. The kidneys may be acti¬ 
vated by the use of pulverized nitrate of potash at about tea¬ 
spoonful doses four times a day. This may be mixed with the 
above oil emulsion. These combinations of oil, calomel, pow¬ 
dered nux vomica and nitrate of potash are not very scientific, 
but they are safe enough and they avoid the trouble of frequent 
dosing, and prevent the worrying of the subjects. Besides 
that may be given quinine at dram doses, or antipyrine in half 
these quantities three or four times daily. These are good to 
counteract the fever. Antipyrine is exceedingly costly, how¬ 
ever. 
The remedy for the evil is preventive inoculation early. 
See special artical further on this point. If this were prac¬ 
ticed by every farmer, almost every animal so protected 
would resist. 
BLACK LEG AND CHARBON. 
Differentiation .—As we occasionally have charbon in this 
* State, and as people unacquainted with veterinary science 
may occasionally confound the two diseases, it is perhaps well 
to explain the most marked differences. 
In the first place, black leg, in the natural course of things 
is a disease of young cattle I may say exclusively, although it 
be inoculated to sheep, rabbits, etc.; and named Bacterium 
Chauvei%. Other names for blackleg are symptomatic an¬ 
thrax, quarter-ill, emphysematous or gaseous anthrax. 
Charbon is a disease of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, etc., 
etc., and even man, It is due to a germ named bacillusanthra- 
cis which differs radically from the germ of black-leg in its 
* We have not charbon in Missouri anything like the States of Mississippi, 
Louisiana and California. It is unfortunate for the people, that in those States, 
the difference between charbon and black leg have not been laid clearly before 
them, and have been confounded. 
t A scientific term for the germ of black leg is Clostridium. 
