18 
W. T. CAMPBELL. 
THE THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF PHENACETIN IN FEB¬ 
RILE DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 
By W. T. Campbell, V. S., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Having had considerable success by the use of phenacetin 
in febrile diseases, I thought an article on the same would not 
go amiss. 
Phenacetin is an odorless, colorless and tasteless powder, 
soluble in alcohol and sparingly soluble in water, having all the 
antiseptic and analgesic properties of acetanilid but not the de¬ 
pressing effect. Its action is slower and more lasting and is 
never collective. It lowers temperature and decreases pain. It 
may be given in doses five times as large and is less liable to 
produce collapse than any other antipyretic. 
From personal experience I find that drachm doses every 
three hours decrease abnormal temperature about one degree a 
day in most cases. 
It is a great diaphoretic, and never leaves any bad effects. 
I have used it in almost all kinds of fevers, and have never 
found it out of place, and have found it to be a specific in influ¬ 
enza, pulmonary diseases, laminitis, gastritis and enteritis. In 
the above diseases I find it superior to perfect a sure and hasty 
cure. To show some of its actions I will give the history of 
some of the cases I have used it in from my call-book. 
Case L —A sorrel horse, belonging to Mrs. G., with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, was brought to hospital on April ioth. He had 
been stabled all winter and had made his first trip against a 
cold rain, and when he arrived at hospital he was hardly able 
to walk. Great drops of sweat bedewed the body. Temper¬ 
ature 104°, heaving flanks, limbs outstretched, head depressed, 
ears and limbs cold and pulse fast and weak, with crepitant 
sound on auscultation. I at once ordered hot fomentations, 
blankets and pure air, a laxative of oil, terebinth and ammo¬ 
nia, and phenacetin in drachm doses every hour. O11 the fol¬ 
lowing day I gave this every two hours, then every three, and 
