Bromides, hydrobromic acid, potassium iodide, chloral, or belladonna may be availed of. Some prefer ergot, but this, like strychnia, is of doubtful effect or positively injurious in most cases in the early stages. Even in the early stages electricity may be used in the form of a constant current, which tends to vaso-motor contraction and a better tone of the capillaries. The electrodes may be applied along the affected side of the spine so that the current may traverse the affected part. It may be kept up for ten to twenty minutes at a time and repeated daily. Any undue suffering under the current may be accepted as a demand for the reduction of its force or its suspension for the time being. When the hyperthermia has subsided and the occurrence of paresis or paralysis demands nervous stimuli, these may be sought in counter-irritants, strychnia, and interrupted currents of electricity. The blisters already mentioned may be used. Strychnia may be used internally (horse or ox 2 grs., sheep ¼ gr., dog ¹⁄₅₀ to ¹⁄₁₆ gr.) or hypodermically (horse 1½ gr., sheep ⅛ gr., dog ¹⁄₁₀₀ to ¹⁄₃₀ gr.). Should this excite the animal or aggravate the symptoms it must be stopped and deferred until the inflammation shall have more completely subsided. The same remark applies to electricity which may be tried in the interrupted current, and graduated to the endurance of the patient or entirely abandoned for the time. If the patient is able to support itself on its limbs, it is best kept in a sling to avoid the formation of sloughs and sores. If it cannot so support itself a very thick soft bed of litter is essential to avoid the sloughing and septic poisoning. Food must be laxative and easily digestible such as mashes, hay tea, and boiled or pulped roots. Fresh green grass may be employed when obtainable. During convalescence a course of bitters with calcium phosphate and carefully regulated exercise are important. In tardy cases Trasbot especially recommends cauterization. SPINAL MENINGITIS. Complex cases. Microbian invasion. Lowered vital tone. Traumas. Poisons, parasites, tubercle, rheumatism, neoplasms, poisonous food. Symptoms: Stiffness, tonic contraction, spasms, hyperæsthesia with warmth, enuresis, paralysis later. Treatment: parallel to myelitis; cold, anodynes, nerve sedatives, and antispasmodics, saline purgatives, diuretics. Iodine, electricity, cauterization.