. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . imulants, and theapplication of hot water to the abdomen, succeeded by , purgatives, and depressants are inadmissible. Theremarks of Mr. Ferguson of Dublin upon the treatment of peri-tonitis are very pertinent, and ought to be carefully studied byveterinary surgeons. They are to the effect that peristaltic actionand movement of the bowels should be arrested by opium inperitonitis (see Veterinarian for 1871). If the above remediesare ineffectual, the probabilities of a favourable termination areVery remote; but should the acu
. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . imulants, and theapplication of hot water to the abdomen, succeeded by , purgatives, and depressants are inadmissible. Theremarks of Mr. Ferguson of Dublin upon the treatment of peri-tonitis are very pertinent, and ought to be carefully studied byveterinary surgeons. They are to the effect that peristaltic actionand movement of the bowels should be arrested by opium inperitonitis (see Veterinarian for 1871). If the above remediesare ineffectual, the probabilities of a favourable termination areVery remote; but should the acute symptoms yield, great caremust still be taken that the patient be subjected to no cause bywhich a relapse may be induced. Purgatives must be withheld;the food must be of the most easily digested nature; Boiledlinseed, with bran well soaked in boiling water, answers admir-ably, as it is calculated to keep the faeces pultaceous withoutproducing increase of the peristaltic action of the bowels. r. .>^ » »?i •i » >j j/1 f * •*•, ^. >;? -s. Fig. 1.
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