242 TREATMENT OF STRONGYLES IN THE BRONCHI.®. 
a post-mortem examination, and found the abdomen nearly 
or quite as full of fluid as before the operation, also a large 
coagulum of blood from rupture of one of the abdominal 
vessels. The whole of the peritoneum lining the abdomen, 
covering the intestines, and uterus (which was empty), was 
more or less covered with patches, about the size of the palm 
of the hand, and from half-an-inch to two inches thick. In 
the centre the result of exudation of lymph into the sub- 
peritoneal areolar tissue, which lymph had degenerated into 
a kind of cartilage; there were also patches of about the 
same size showing the vessels highly injected. 
In the treatment of ascites in the dog I find that iodine 
has often an extraordinary effect in producing absorption of 
the fluid, but during its administration it is not unusual to 
see more or less paralysis produced, but it soon passes off by 
the iodine being withheld for a short time. 
When death takes place shortly after tapping in cases of 
ascites or hydrothorax, it generally results from the cavity 
becoming quickly refilled with serous fluid, which, by with¬ 
drawing a large quantity of albumen suddenly from the 
blood, effectually prostrates the animal. Good nursing, 
generous diet, and rapid assimilation of nutritive matters 
can alone enable an animal to withstand depletion of this 
kind. 
TREATMENT OF STRONGYLES IN THE 
BRONCHLE. 
By the Same. 
In the treatment of this disease I have found the following 
mixture more successful than any other. For calves, from six 
to nine months old, give Oli. Lini. Oss., on the succeeding day 
Veratrum Alb. Pulv. 3ij in ^iv of Oli. Lini., and again on the 
third day Oli. Lini. Oss. Repeat the doses in about a week if 
necessary. In weak calves the medicine occasionally produces 
convulsions, but those symptoms soon pass away. 
From the Report of the Central Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation I find that some of the members are very unfortunate 
in the treatment of laminitis. If they fully adopted my 
plan of treatment they would not have had specimens to pro¬ 
duce at their meeting. I have not had a case under treat¬ 
ment during the last twelve years which has not turned out 
satisfactorily. The time required for the treatment of an 
ordinary case of acute laminitis is from three to ten days. 
