When cool, strain, and add a wine-glass of honey.
If there is great thirst, and the mouth is hot and dry, the animal may have a plentiful supply of water.
If the malady threatens to assume a putrid or malignant type, add a small quantity of capsicum and charcoal to the drink, and support the strength of the animal with flour gruel.
TYPHUS FEVER.
Causes.—Sudden changes in the temperature of the atmosphere, the animal being at the same time in a state of debility, unable to resist external agencies.
Treatment.—Support the powers of the system through the means of nutritious diet, in the form of flour gruel, scalded meal and shorts, bran-water, &c.
Give tonics, relaxants, and antispasmodics, in the following form:—
| Powdered capsicum, | 1 tea-spoonful. |
| Powdered bloodroot, | 1 ounce. |
| Powdered cinnamon, | half an ounce. |
| Thoroughwort or valerian, | 2 ounces. |
| Boiling water, | 1 gallon |
When cold, strain, and give a quart every two hours.
Remove the contents of the rectum by injections of a stimulating character, and invite action to the extremities by rubbing them with stimulating liniment, (which see.) A drink of camomile tea should be freely allowed; if diarrhœa sets in, add half a tea-spoon of bayberry bark to every two quarts of the tea.