_Treatment._--The greatest care must be taken to secure the patient good nutritious food, pure air, and water. The food should consist of a mixture of two or more of the following articles, which must be cooked: linseed, parsnips, shorts, carrots, meal, apples, barley, oats, turnips, slippery elm, oil cake, &c. We again remind the reader that no single or compound medicine can be procured that will be suitable for every stage of the disease; it must be treated according to its indications. Yet the following compound, aided by warmth, moisture, and friction, externally, will be found better than any medicine yet known. It consists of Powdered charcoal, 8 ounces. " sulphur, 2 ounces. Fine salt, 3 ounces. Oatmeal, 2 pounds. Mandrake, (_podophyllum peltatum_,) 1 ounce. After the ingredients are well mixed, divide the mass into fourteen parts, and give one night and morning. _Special Treatment with reference to the Symptoms._--Suppose the animal to be "off her feed," and the bowels are constipated; then give an aperient composed of Extract of butternut, 2 drachms. Powdered capsicum, one third of a tea-spoonful. Thoroughwort tea, 2 quarts. To be given at a dose, taking care to pour it down the throat in a gradual manner; for, if poured down too quick, it will fall into the paunch. If the rectum is suspected to be loaded with excrement, make use of the common soap-suds injection. If the animal appears to walk about without any apparent object in view, there is reason to suppose that the brain is congested. This may be verified if the _sclerotica_ (white of the eye) is of a deep red color. The following will be indicated:-- Mandrake, (_podophyllum peltatum_,) 1 table-spoonful. Sulphur, 1 tea-spoonful. Cream of tartar, 1 tea-spoonful. Hot water, 2 quarts. To be given at a dose. At the same time apply cold water to the head, and rub the spine and legs (below the knees) with the following counter-irritant:-- Powdered bloodroot or cayenne, 1 ounce. " black pepper, half an ounce. Boiling vinegar, 1 quart. Rub the mixture in while hot, with a piece of flannel. If a trembling of the muscular system is observed, then give Powdered ginger, } " cinnamon, } of each half " golden seal, } a tea-spoonful. To be given at a dose, in half a gallon of catnip tea. Aid the vital powers in producing a crisis by the warmth and moisture, as directed in the treatment of colds, &c. It is necessary to keep the rectum empty by means of injections, forms of which will be found in this work.