_Diaphoretics._ Besides these remedial methods of inducing a revulsion and glow in the skin with perspiration, _medicinal diaphoretics_ may be resorted to. Among these may be included _copious drinks and injections of warm water_, _acetate of ammonia_, _antimony_, _ipecacuan_, or _pilocarpin_, or one of the sedatives, _aconite_, _veratrum_, or _opium_, etc. Many a threatened acute inflammation has been to a great extent cut short and nipped in the bud—the stage of chill—by warm clothing, active hand rubbing, and such an apparently unscientific nauseant as tobacco. When the preliminary stage has passed and the hot stage of the fever has set in, cooling and eliminating agents are especially called for. _Laxatives._ In many cases, and especially in those with marked constipation or bowels loaded with indigestible materials, a laxative is beneficial. For the horse, aloes, or, often better, sulphate of soda, and for cattle or sheep, the latter, or Epsom salts, will at once remove an irritant, cool the general system, draw off much blood and nervous energy to the bowels, and secure a considerable depletion and elimination from the intestines. For swine, dogs, and cats castor oil or salts may be used, and for fowls castor oil. If the mucous membranes are yellow, the tongue furred, and feces scanty, hard, and fœtid, a dose of calomel (horse or ox, one drachm; sheep or pig, one scruple; dog, three grains; chicken, one-half grain) with tartar emetic (horse or ox, two drachms; sheep, twenty grains; swine, one-half grain; dog, one-fourth grain; chicken, one-eighth grain) may be given and followed in ten hours by one of the laxatives named above. _Diuretics._ In the absence of any manifest disorder of the digestive organs, the laxative may be omitted and refrigerant diuretics resorted to. Acetate of ammonia or potassa, nitre, tartrate of potassa, carbonates of potassa or soda, may be used along with sedatives. In cases of infectious disease with poisoning by ptomaines and toxins the elimination of these by the bowels and kidneys is of the greatest importance. _Sedatives._ Of the sedatives, aconite, bromide of potassium, veratrum, hyoscyamus, or chloral hydrate may be used according to the special indications. _Alkalies._ _Resolvents._ When the organ inflamed is a serous membrane in which dangerous adhesions or other functional disorders are likely to occur from newly formed false membranes, their formation should be counteracted as far as possible by the free use of alkalies (carbonates of soda, potash, or ammonia, nitre, iodide of potassium, muriate of ammonia, etc.), and in the same conditions excessive effusion should be controlled by free action on the kidneys.