CANNABIS INDICA. 
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Cannabis in Colic .—Here is where I wish to speak of the 
drug as of the greatest use to the veterinarian. I consider this 
drug the anodyne par excellence in all our animals, for, as Finlay 
Dun says, it gives no deleterious after results and an animal with 
a simple case of abdominal pain may work again in a few hours 
when relieved. In treating a case of colic I find about two 
drachms of the fluid extract poured on the tongue and repeated 
every fifteen to twenty minutes is about right; some use less and 
others use more. I believe there is no danger in larger doseSy 
but I think equally good results are derived from oft-repeated 
small doses ; anyhow, you will save expense and relieve the ani¬ 
mal about as quickly. If the animal’s circulation is good, so 
that absorption takes place readily, and the extract is made by a 
reliable chemist, the animal should be under the influence in 
about thirty to forty minutes, and either lie down or doze off 
standing up, and only one-half an ounce to one ounce of extract 
used. There are once and again cases when it will take four 
ounces, but I can assure you, gentlemen, when it takes four 
ounces of a good preparation of this drug or more, things will 
begin to look serious, and the vigilant practitioner will perceive 
long before he has gotten to this stage that there are other things 
required besides a simple anodyne, for all we claim of this drug 
is to make the animal comfortable till nature can remove the of¬ 
fending element without interfering with the action of the bow¬ 
els. Of course I do not wish to be understood to recommend 
this drug as a panacea for all colics without any other treatment, 
as some do for their favorites (barium chloride, for instance), but 
when we get excessive flatus we need something to check fer¬ 
mentation and the trocar to relieve pressure, and when we get a 
congestive colic we need the fleam with mustard to the sides 
and cannabis by the mouth, and so on. But I will repeat, when 
a simple narcotic and anodyne is required cannabis indica is the 
drug par excellence^ and I think if any of you have never tried 
it, it will give you much satisfaction. 
