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ing costly medicaments in the veterinary practice, but I proceed 
from this point of view, not to give that which is cheapest, bu 
that which is most appropriate. Of course I would not ordei 
twenty dollars worth of medicine for a horse which is not wort! 
fifteen dollars. But in cases of valuable race horses, which pre 
dominate in my practice, I cannot ask whether the medicine i- 
cheap, but whether it answers the purpose. The owner of such ^ 
horse does not inquire as to the cost of the treatment, but if evei 
possible he wants to save his valuable animal, sometimes wortl 
thousands,^even if it be only for breeding purposes. Where cir 
cumstances will not admit of giving quinine, a diuretic or purga 
tive may be given a trial, such as cream of tartar, tartar emetic 
turpentine, baccse juniperi, ononis, petrosilei, cantharid., etc. 
in short, the expedients of the old school. If relapses occur, the 
antiphlogistic treatment must be repeated. If the diseases of the 
heart during their course assume a chronic character, appear 
ances of ausemie become manifest quite often, which require the 
employment of iron preparations, 1 can especially recommend 
ferrum lacticum as the most soluble of all iron preparations; 
ferri. snlph. will also answer the purpose. 
Herewith the therapeutical treatment of the inflammatory 
diseases of the heart are given. These are not recipes and for¬ 
mulas, but the intelligent practitioner will easily understand with¬ 
out further specifications. 
The treatment of nervous affections, as palpitation of the 
heart, neuralgia, cramp, etc., is much more successful. The ap¬ 
plication of aqua, laurocerasi, twenty per dose, mixed with opium 
or aconite, in palpitation is generally crowned with success. »Iu 
nervous palpitations we will find that digitalis is indispensable; 
still, should it fail, narcotics would be in place. After quieting 
the nervous alteration it is well to give one or two doses of 
cream of tartar with natr. nitric.; the disturbances of the circula¬ 
tion which might possibly follow would thereby be paralyzed. 
Intense nervous alteration, in which dyspnoea is often present, 
requires the use of natron salycil., venesection and antiphlogistic 
remedies. A nervous alteration is nearly always present in lam- 
jnitis in horses, and rheumatism of the joints, against which 
