The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

58 The Management and Treatment of the Morse,
through the diseased organs, helping to exhaust and
break down their structure, and thereby cause irrepa-
rable damage. Another serious evil is that we have
sympathetic disturbance from absorption of the fly. I
have always adopted mustard in the early stages of influ-
enza, and with marked effect. Mr. Mavor, I am told, uses
the vapour bath with great success. In many cases I
have derived much benefit from giving the patient
sulphate of magnesia in four-ounce doses twice a day,
as a febrifuge, alterative, and purifier. Rowels and
setons are sometimes used, but do more harm than
good In therapeutics my mode of
proceeding is similar to that which I adopt in simple
influenza; keep the patient's head to the open door
day and night, and give stimulating tonic. Some prac-
tical veterinary surgeons give iodide of potassium, and
also chlorate of potass, but not having given them myself
I cannot speak of their effects. Diuretic medicine is
undoubtedly good in removing oedema and other deposits,
but have no power to arrest the process of effusion and
exudations. Contradictory as it may appear to my
readers, I incline to the opinion that if the real truth
could be fully known, it would be found that effusion is
actually facilitated during the action of diuretic medicine.
This is known, that during the action of cathartic medi-
cine, which abstracts the watery part of the blood by
way of the bowels, as diuretics do by the kidneys, the
carthral action (the process of effusion) goes on more
rapidly. Some patients will rally to a certain point,
then become stationary for several days, the pulse stand-
ing at 60, 72, or 80, the symptoms neither indicating