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3. Rheumatic FKorm.—This form usu 
of the ordinary symptoms of catarrh, 
heat in the joints, which crackle when m 
ally manifests itself towards the close 
It may be diagnosed by the pain and 
at | 1 oved, and, after a time, swell. Although. 
the joints are especially liable to be affected, the muscles and the flexor tendons 
below the knee and hock are also sometimes inyolyed. The pain and swellings 
like those of rheumatic fever are shifting. Heart complications may appear in 
this form of influenza. 
4. Treatment of Oomplicated Forms of Influenza.—T 
placed under good hygienic conditions, and should be kept, in cases, quiet. The 
warmth of the body and legs must be maintained by clothing and bandages. 
Water, fresh water, should always be within reach. ‘The diet should, at first, 
be laxative, and should consist of mashes, linseed eruel, roots, &e. Good 
nursing is the primary requisite. The great aim, however, must be to support 
the patient through the disease. Drastic purgatives and strone sedatives must 
always be avoided. Medicinally, 2 drachms of nitrate of potassium may be 
given in the water; also, liquor ammonie acetatis and spirits of nitric ether 
may be given in a form of a draught twice or three times daily. Sulphite of 
sodium in 2-drachm doses, or sulpho-carbolate of sodium in 1-drachm doses, 
twice daily, may be given in addition. 
Thoracie Form.—Treat with liquor ammonie acetatis, pot. nitrate or 
chlorate and camphor. Hot fomentations upplied to chest, as mustard, but 
washed off in 15 to 20 minutes: reapplied if needf 
F ia : ul. With salines, give 
alcohol, as whisky, stout, or ale, in early stages, in moderate doses, every three 
hours. ay 
Abdominal Form.—Gastro-intestinal, treated with, in early stages by afew 
doses of greu-powder or calomel, conjoined with laxatives, ‘as linseed oil or 
Epsom salts. In later stages, by intro-hydrocholie acid, Abdominal pain 
relieved by chloral, morphia, and chloric ether, or morphine hypodermieally. 
If there is much yellowness of the mucous membrane of the mouth or of 
the conjunction in the commencement of the disease, half a drachm of calomel 
may be given, and repeated the next day, and followed by a diffusable stimulant. 
This may be followed by 10 or 12 oz. of linseed oil, if constipation be present, 
and also by enemata. 
Ttheumatie Symptoms.—Treated with salicylic acid, oil 
doses of digitalis and salines, with stimulation of affected muscles and joints 
with embrocation and liniments. If much swelling be present, diuretic salines, 
combined with diffusable stimulants, are useful. Gentle friction and bandages 
are also valuable adjuncts. ¥ 
Signs of recovery are indicated by restoration of the 
and secretions of skin and kidneys, by the discharge o 
healthy character, by the visible mucous membranes r 
colour, by the pulse temperature reaching their normal 
animal lying comfortably down. 
he animal should be 
of turpentine, diuretic 
action of the bowels 
f nostrils assuming a 
ecovering their proper 
standard, and by the 
LN 
Poultry. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. 
Tuts duck has of late come into much fayour with some poultry-breeders. 
There are some who object to the breed—namely, to its dark flesh, and, as they 
say, to its erratic laying ; but on this last point ‘Mr. Pitman, writing to Garden 
and Field, says:—“ My nine Indian Runner Ducks still continue to lay well; 
for the 15th month, ending 20th August, they have laid 191 eges, making a 
total of 2,483, an average of 276 each.’ Mr. G. H. Dean says:—“ Ags ege- 
producers they are superior to Minoreas, and for flesh and breast meat far 
better than the Pekin or Rouen, Ducks that will average 250 eggs a year are 
Al 
