If anything more is wanted for these mild cases, small doses of stimulating diuretics or diaphoretics may be given. Sweet spirits of nitre ½ oz. or liquor of acetate of ammonia 2 oz. may be given twice a day, the latter in the drinking water or gruel. In the absence of these saltpeter ½ oz, or potassium acetate ½ oz. may be given. In the more _severe cases_ more active treatment is resorted to, but in all cases one should avoid measures that tend to greatly depress the vital powers and especially the circulation. Heroic treatment has been all but universally condemned and yet Trasbot claims to have had excellent results from a moderate venesection (2–5 qts.) in strong, muscular, well conditioned animals. The blood became more fibrinous, the general symptoms improved and complications were far less marked. During twenty years, in a large number of cases, it had constantly the same results, restoring appetite, opening the closed eye, imparting new life, lowering temperature, and checking congestions. The results were best in all cases when it was employed early, but they were almost equally good when later congestions set in, or when the ordinary inflammatory localizations were advancing, and he found the measure hurtful only when, in the advanced stages, the animal was worn out, and destitute of all power of recuperation. _Antipyretics_ have been lauded and decried, and it is doubtless best to use them with due discrimination and caution. Acetanilid, the agent in most common use, is a powerful cardiac depressant, and in this disease the heart is often already dangerously weak. Yet in cases with very high temperature, seriously threatening life, acetanilid in doses of 2 drams, repeated every second or third hour until the temperature falls, and thereafter twice or thrice daily, for a day or two, may save the patient. Similarly, where there are indications of violent headache (drooping head, eyelids and ears, congested and watery conjunctiva, stupor or irresponsiveness) a dose or two of acetanilid with the same amount of sodium bromide will often give material relief. The general suffering and disorder attendant on the cephalalgia, if allowed to continue, prove a direct bar to improvement, and endanger complications that might otherwise be escaped. On the other hand, there is constant danger from too large doses, or a too long continued use of acetanilid in influenza. Phenacetin may be substituted in 2 dram doses, the action being somewhat more prompt and transient. As less dangerous than the coal tar antipyretics, we may fall back on such agents as sodium salicylate, ½ to 1 oz., or sulphate of quinia, 20 grs.